MANILA, Philippines: Philippine police will arrest 18 suspects in a corruption scandal involving flood control projects that has sparked huge protests and forced implicated congressional leaders to step down, Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. announced Friday. Marcos has been scrambling to quell public outrage over the massive corruption, which has been blamed for substandard, defective or non-existent flood control projects in a poverty-stricken country, long prone to deadly typhoons, floodings and extreme weather in tropical Asia.

Ministers implicated in scandal involving misused and stolen funds earmarked for anti-flooding infrastructure.

MANILA, Philippines: Philippine police will arrest 18 suspects in a corruption scandal involving flood control projects that has sparked huge protests and forced implicated…

Arrests come amid outrage over 'ghost' flood control projects estimated to have cost the Philippines $2bn.