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Ex-speaker: No evidence against me
The Philippine Star
|November 22, 2025
Maintaining that his conscience is clear, former speaker Martin Romualdez said that he trusts the impartiality of the Office of the Ombudsman.
Romualdez issued the statement yesterday through his lawyer Ade Fajardo after the Department of Public Works and Highways and the Independent Commission for Infrastructure (ICI) recommended the filing of plunder and graft charges against him and resigned congressman Zaldy Co before the ombudsman.
“I willingly submitted myself to the ICI’s fact-finding process, appeared voluntarily and remained in the country,” Romualdez said in a statement read by Fajardo.
“Throughout all these proceedings, no sworn or credible evidence has ever linked me to any irregularity, and again, my conscience remains clear," he added.
This story is from the November 22, 2025 edition of The Philippine Star.
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