IT may have been a problem that partly enabled the massive corruption in infrastructure projects: Exceptions from the public works ban that the Commission on Elections (COMELEC) had granted by the tens of thousands during...
COMELEC ok’d flood of public works
Opacity of Joint Ventures in Public Procurement
Structural Vulnerabilities and Reform Directions
Recent corruption scandals in infrastructure and election-related procurements have highlighted deep systemic weaknesses in the regulation of joint venture (JV) participation under our procurement laws. Our analysis shows that...
Data reveal from 2022 to 2025
Congress dagdag-bawas:
P663B in DPWH budget for ‘insertions’?
Note: This report is based on the “Summary Notes and Datasets on DPWH NEP vis GAA, 2022-2025” that R2KRN submitted in response to a request of the Independent Commission for Infrastructure on 10 November 2025. HOW did Congress...
Firms of CoA auditor’s wife score PhP3B
from infra, fire trucks, supply contracts
COINCIDENCE, solicited, or compelled contracts? By the number and value of contracts it secured from the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH), Olympus Mining and Builders Group Phils. Corp., the company owned and led by...
The Watcher Entangled
Conflict of Interest at COA’s Doorstep
In October 2024, veteran broadcaster Ted Failon interviewed the first nominee of the Vendors Samahan ng Mga Maninindang Pilipino (Vendors) Party List on his radio program Ted Failon at DJ Chacha sa True FM. In response to...
Ikulong korap! Ibalik ang nakaw!
No fastbreak to justice vs crooks
THE SCALE and depth of corruption in flood control projects has fueled public demand for swift punishment. Two demands have been raised: Send the crooks to jail! Return stolen funds! But precisely because of the enormity and...
Crooks Incorporated@PH
Pushers, enablers, players gaming the system in band
“I DID NOT invent corruption. I just walked into it.” These were the last words of General Angelo Tomas Reyes, former Armed Forces chief of staff and Defense secretary, before he shot himself to death at his mother’s grave in a...
Flood of Corruption Spreads Across the Philippines
Favored contractors, regions, cities of clans bag top money
THE PLOT THICKENS, DEEPENS, and SICKENS.That is the story of the massive corruption in flood control projects from July 2022 to May 2025, according to https://www.sumbongsapangulo.ph/ data, drilled down to granular level. The...
A circle of corruption Insertions, ghost, bad projects: Who come with clean hands?
EXPOSÉS on the flood of anomalous flood control projects have triggered massive public anger and rage against contractors, some politicians, and personnel of the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH). In the last...
foi practice by voters, residents: TRACKING ABUSE OF STATE RESOURCES IN THE BARANGAY
THE case of Barangay Commonwealth, with its sizable population and diverse electorate, serves as a critical example for examining and documenting the strategies employed by certain candidates and groups to sway voters — before and during campaign periods, and unto...