The Athletics Stadium in New Clark City, Tarlac province, has a 20,000 seating capacity. FILE PHOTO / Maria Adelaida Calayag
MANILA, Philippines — The National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) will conduct an investigation into alleged irregularities in the funding of a sports complex built in New Clark City, Tarlac, which was used in the 2019 Southeast Asian (SEA) Games.
In an interview on Tuesday, NBI Director Melvin Matibag said that upon their recent visit to New Clark City for the building of a 70-hectare NBI Academy, they saw the sports complex and received information that around P10 billion was involved in the project without undergoing liquidation.
He said a Malaysian company built the complex used in the SEA Games, noting that “there was no bidding that took place, and the P10 billion was quickly paid through congressional insertion in the General Appropriations Act (GAA).”
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