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The Philippine Star
|November 30, 2025
The amounts of kickbacks that former public works officials have started returning to national coffers bolster estimates that the total plundered by thieves from flood control and other infrastructure projects will total trillions of pesos.
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Last Friday, in an unforgettable sight in the annals of corruption in this country, Henry Alcantara turned over P110 million in cold cash to the government as restitution in return for provisional acceptance as a state witness.
The Department of Justice said the Land Bank of the Philippines would check the staggering pile of cash for counterfeits before the money is turned over to the National Treasury. According to President Marcos, the government expects another P200 million in restitution from Alcantara, the former Bulacan first district engineer of the Department of Public Works and Highways.
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