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Proposed legislation to strengthen the fight against corruption by empowering the Office of the Ombudsman will be among the partial recommendations of the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee following its investigation into the flood control scandal, Senate President Pro Tempore and Blue Ribbon Committee Chairman Ping Lacson said. Lacson said these include allowing the undermanned Office […]
Senate Majority Leader Migz Zubiri hailed the new memorandum of agreement between the Anti-Red Tape Authority and the Office of the Ombudsman, calling it a decisive enforcement tool to give the Ease of Doing Business law more bite to combat government red tape. “This partnership between the ARTA and the Ombudsman will finally speed up […]
Senator Chiz Escudero has filed a proposed bill that will enable the Office of the Ombudsman to retain at least 30% of the value of the ill-gotten assets acquired from the forfeiture cases that the government won in courts against corrupt public officials as a move to augment the financial resources of the country’s graft […]