Philippine president backs filing of charges against allies accused of corruption

Philippine President Benigno Aquino encouraged the filing of charges against his allies suspected of corruption, as a consumer group filed a complaint to the Ombudsman against the country’s head of police. “If [people] think that I have dishonest people around me, then all they have to do is file an appropriate case. The ombudsman investigates instances where complaints are unsigned or anonymous precisely to ferret out those who are not treading the correct path,” said Aquino at the Kennedy School of Government Institute of Politics at Harvard University.

Read the story by Barbara Mae Dacanay in Gulf News.

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