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may be hard to beli*bii fte benbte Committee, chaired'bi. drusader Sen. Richard Aguirre's valuation of the amount defrar
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and Houie of Representatives Can cdmdto an' Gordoirltd iile charges d$inst governmdnt officials much b jgger - P8.? billion to be exact - the
dgreement due to recent issues surrounding the and private individuals, which also included identified as the financier was none oih
m$ budgei and the mudslinging that came along Mamburan, Ti, Diron and Tamayo, for the.same Nelson Ti, yet again. A plunder complal
with it, bui the two chambers of Congress recently RRoW scam, robbing the government of P255.5 eventually filed in March 2018 before the C
dame together and issued consistent rulings on million, Gordon recommended the immediaie filing the Ombudsman.
an importani issue: the road right ofway (RRoW) of a plunder case against the persons identified Althoughthe amounts said to have been pl
s'cam in Mindanao, particularly in Region XII, in its report. by this crimina.l syndicate varied, the Senak
which reeks of graft and corruption, has been We should go evgn way back when the and the Dod all included businessman Nels
pinned on the cronies offormer President Benigno Department ofJustice (DoJ), under the leadership its findings. But who is he?
'PNoy'Aquino. ofthen Secretary Vitaliano Aguire, first unearthed For starters, Nelson Ti is said to be
0n 8 February, right before going this conspiracy sometime in November 2017, yhen relative of Domingo Lee, the yellow's
(( into congessional recess, on the very the NBI submitted reports that a cdminal s)'ndicate ambassador to China during their time r

It won't last day ofsession, the House adopted subrnitted fake titles in the name of inexistent personyou must be Googling about right n0'
ta*e long for the committee report of the Ilowe individuals to claim just compensation from the Because you will see perhaps the most hun
lNog, his Committee on Good Govemment DPWH for the government's er?ropdation 0f land questioning ever done in the Commisl
d/onies and. and Public Accountability, chairerl for projects located in Region XIL This was done in Appointments, kudos to former Sen. Serge (
goDemment by Rep. XJ Romualdez, on this conspiracywith several government officials from Imagine an ambassador who canno
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qaltzing Marnburan and Nelson

{owards Ti in submitting
thnir cold. fabricated documents
priaon cel.Ia. and repres enting
Iictitious claimants/
lpndowners." Among those implicated
*ere former regional directors of
tie Department of Public Works and
l{iehways (DPWH) Region )oI - Subair
S. Diron and Relnaldo Tamayo.
r A whopping P3.3 billion worth of
fraudulent RRoW claims were said to
have been approved by the syndicate
funded by yellow ffony Nelson Ti
and his cohorts. In the detailed
qnd meticulously rvritten report of
Rep. Romualdez, it was divulged
by witness nobe$o Catapang, Jr.
that commissions amounting to 20
fercent were handed to RD Tamayo
who also had the gall and temeriry of
issuing more disbursement vouchers
despite being llagged by Commission
gn Audit (CoA).
' Prior to this aciion by the House,
Bte Senate, on 6 February adopted
the report of its Blue Ribbon

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