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[Updated May 22, 11:46 p.m.]
MANILA, Philippines — The Office of the Ombudsman’s deputy bureau is recommending charges of plunder and three counts of indirect bribery against Sen. Rodante Marcoleta over alleged campaign donations worth P75 million.
The field investigation bureau of the Office of the Deputy Ombudsman for Luzon was the complainant of the criminal complaint lodged on May 18, according to the complaint-affidavit obtained by Inquirer on Friday.
Aside from Marcoleta, three of his donors—namely former Rep. Mike Defensor and a certain Joseph Espiritu and Aristotle Viray— are also facing plunder and indirect bribery complaints.
