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On January 30, 2008, the Senate produced warrants of arrest to Neri and Rodolfo "Jun" Lozada, Jr., former chief executive officer of the government-run Philippine Forest Corporation and a consultant of the NEDA. Neri then went into hiding while Lozada skipped the Senate hearing and went to Hong Kong. [7]
Lozada (right) with former Philippine president Corazon Aquino in February 2008.. Rodolfo Noel Imperial Lozada Jr., known as Jun Lozada is a Filipino electronics and communications engineer and former chief executive officer of the Philippine Forest Corporation who served as a technical consultant to former Philippine Socio-Economic Planning Secretary Romulo Neri on the Philippine national ...
The list is organized by office. The criminal statute(s) under which the conviction(s) were obtained are noted, as are the names of notable investigations, scandals, or litigation, if applicable. The year of conviction is included (if the official was convicted multiple times due to retrials, only the year of the first conviction is included).
China will revise its criminal law to make way for a new anti-graft commission, a top Chinese lawmaker said on Monday, after legal scholars warned the new law will leave suspects at risk of rights ...
While several early cases employed the "intangible right to honest government," United States v. States (8th Cir. 1973) [9] was the first case to rely on honest services fraud as the sole basis for a conviction. [10] The prosecution of state and local political corruption became a "major federal law enforcement priority" in the 1970s. [11]
I'm saying very clearly that the people who are against the government will have the law thrown in their faces. Those who are for the government can escape,” he said. Mahathir held office from ...
By Anthony Esposito ACAPULCO (Reuters) - Mexico's attorney general should be given more autonomy to fight graft so that no one, not even the president, is above the law, the ruling Institutional ...
Graft, as understood in American English, is a form of political corruption defined as the unscrupulous use of a politician's authority for personal gain. Political graft occurs when funds intended for public projects are intentionally misdirected in order to maximize the benefits to private interests.