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Marcos scandals – incidents of alleged corruption linked to Japanese Official Development Assistance to the Philippines during the Marcos' administration. 1986 Operation Big Bird, 1986 – the bungled plan of the Philippine Government to retrieve the unexplained wealth of the Marcos family in Swiss banks.
The Philippines suffers from widespread corruption, [1] which developed during the Spanish colonial period. [2] [3] According to GAN Integrity's Philippines Corruption Report updated May 2020, the Philippines suffers from many incidents of corruption and crime in many aspects of civic life and in various sectors.
The Philippine National Broadband Network controversy (also referred to as the NBN–ZTE deal or NBN–ZTE mess) involved allegations of corruption in the awarding of a US$329 million construction contract to Chinese telecommunications firm ZTE for the proposed government-managed National Broadband Network (NBN).
The 2011 Armed Forces of the Philippines corruption scandal, also known as the " pabaon scandal", was a political scandal involving the alleged misuse of military funds by high-ranking members of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP). The pabaon system referred to a practice of giving millions of pesos to chiefs of staff when they retire. [1]
United States military scandals in the Philippines (1 C, 6 P) Pages in category "Political scandals in the Philippines" The following 26 pages are in this category, out of 26 total.
Nine contracts worth ₱8.68 billion contracts were awarded to Pharmally despite its small paid-up capital. [4] These were signed by Lloyd Christopher Lao, Department of Budget and Management (DBM) Procurement Service (PS) Officer in Charge since January 2, 2020, in which Pharmally would supply the government supplies for the COVID-19 pandemic including personal protective equipment, surgical ...
The Priority Development Assistance Fund scam, also called the PDAF scam or the pork barrel scam, is a political scandal involving the alleged misuse by several members of the Congress of the Philippines of their Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF, popularly called "pork barrel"), a lump-sum discretionary fund granted to each member of Congress for spending on priority development ...
The Marcos ODA scandal and other incidents of corruption were issues that the succeeding administrations of presidents Corazon Aquino and Fidel V. Ramos had to address. The Japanese government discreetly requested the Philippine government to downplay the issue as it would affect the business sector and bilateral relations.