Isn’t this skating towards police state behavior? (Hey, as far as we know, we’re still free to ask.)
“During the 5th Integrity Lecture at the Asian Development Bank, Ombudsman Conchita Carpio Morales said they were widening the probe of cases involving the PHP10-billion Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF) and other controversies involving former and incumbent government officials whose relatives could have also acquired unexplained wealth,” reports Rio N. Araja in Manila Standard Today.
That means, as Carpio said, “a lifestyle check will be conducted on the respondents’ kin to also hold them liable.”
So, they won’t even wait for the main respondent to be convicted?
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Photo from the Office of the Ombudsman website
