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Up to 70 per cent of government funds for flood-control projects were lost to corruption.
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MANILA – Senator Francis Pangilinan leaned into his microphone and fired off numbers in pesos: 50 million? 10 million? 100 million? “You withdrew this in cash?”
Across the hearing room sat Ms Sally Santos, the proprietor of Syms Construction Trading and a central figure in the Philippines’ ballooning flood-control scandal.
