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Discaya-owned firms face ₱300-B penalties for rigging DPWH flood contracts
Manila Bulletin
|October 4, 2025
Discaya-owned companies cornered 1,214 projects worth P77.934 billion from 2016 to 2025.
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The violations prompted the revocation of their contractor licenses and the referral of two cases to the Philippine Competition Commission (PCC) for possible penalties under anticompetitive practice laws.
"The maximum penalty is P250 million per contract, so the penalty is actually higher than the value of the contracts," Dizon said.
He added that the Discayas admitted under oath during a Senate Blue Ribbon Committee hearing that their firms sometimes competed against each other for the same projects, exposing systemic manipulation that undermines public trust in government spending.
Records from the Land Registration Authority showed that the Discayas fully own 18 real estate properties valued at P1 billion.
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