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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 ...
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.
Lawmakers for the new coalition government of populist Prime Minister Robert Fico voted Thursday to amend the penal code and eliminate the office of the special prosecutor that deals with major ...
Over the course of his legislative tenure, Lozada led the House committee of foreign affairs, [2] authored the Dual Citizenship Act, [4] and helped pass the Overseas Absentee Voting Law. [2] Lozada also authored and filed a bill in March 1999 seeking the establishment of a Pasig River Development Office to better solve the pollution problem of ...
Former Malaysian leader Mahathir Mohamad attacked a graft probe into his associates as politically motivated, a week after his eldest son was ordered to hand over information to investigators.
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 ...
Chapter 11 - Bribery, Graft, and Conflicts of Interest. 18 U.S.C. § 203: unauthorized compensation of officials for representing persons before the government (formerly codified at Rev. Stat. § 1782) (enacted 1864) [107] 18 U.S.C. § 204: prohibiting members of Congress from practicing before the United States Court of Claims or the Federal ...