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Today’s headlines: Bong Go, Chiz Escudero, Karim Khan

Here are today’s headlines – the latest news in the Philippines and around the world: 

• DPWH, Ombudsman investigating Bong Go family firm’s ties with Discayas

Public Works and Highways Secretary Vince Dizon says the agency, along with the Office of the Ombudsman, is investigating the links between CLTG Builders and controversial contractors Curlee and Sarah Discayas.

• Chiz Escudero’s brod-in-law is DPWH contractor, projects spiked under Marcos

The Escuderos are linked to construction company Octagon Concrete Solutions, a company that’s now worth P2 billion propelled by projects in 2024 under President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.

• Senate, House approval ratings drop amid flood control mess – Pulse Asia

Approval ratings for both chambers of Congress drop by double digits. This, as some lawmakers are implicated in alleged corruption involving infrastructure projects.

• NIA denies Lanao ‘ghost project,’ but Antatico’s photos tell another story

National Irrigation Administration Administrator Eduardo Guillen rejects the claims of murdered whistleblower Niruh Kyle Antatico. Antatico, a former legal researcher at the NIA, accused the regional office of signing off on a P75-million ‘ghost project’ in Maguing, Lanao del Sur.

• Prosecutor’s removal from Duterte case has ‘no impact’ – ICC

The International Criminal Court says that the removal of prosecutor Karim Khan from the case against former president Rodrigo Duterte ‘has no impact on the case itself’. The decision to disqualify Khan is due to a ‘number of factors that may give rise to an objectively reasonable appearance of bias’. —Rappler.com