COMELEC ok’d flood of public works
ban exception in 2022, 2025 elections
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...
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...