[News] The Philippines Arrested the President's Own Cousin. The Machinery Doing It Was Built to Prosecute His Family.
The Office of the Ombudsman charged the President's first cousin with amassing at least 7.44 billion pesos in flood-control kickbacks, and a non-bailable statute made detention automatic the moment the warrant issued, in a prosecution brought by an Ombudsman the President appointed from his own cabinet.
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