Marcos vows to jail dozens of flood graft-linked politicians by Christmas

MANILA: Many powerful politicians linked to corruption in Philippine flood control projects will be in jail by Christmas, President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. said on Thursday, after dozens of officials were named as suspects in a multibillion-dollar graft scandal. Public outrage has grown since August in the Philippines, after an audit ordered by Marcos revealed that billions of pesos worth of flood-control facilities were substandard, poorly documented, or nonexistent.

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