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Tag: Arturo Lascanas

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    Top secret: confidential corruption

    By Antonio J. Montalván II  |  Oct 13, 2022 8:01 PM

    For his last hurrah in office, Rodrigo Duterte had the privilege of spending a total of P4.5 billion in confidential and intelligence funds. How he spent that colossal amount will never be known.

    Arturo Lascanas, Rodrigo Duterte

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    Categories Editor's Pick

    Lascañas says Duterte paid him using Davao City’s ‘ghost’ employees

    By Ellen T. Tordesillas  |  Apr 03, 2017 12:39 PM

    In the business of death, self-confessed hitman Arturo Lascañas had reaped a ghastly reward: He became a “ghost” employee of the Davao City Hall, whose paycheck got a boost from the salaries of other “ghost” employees.

    205 COA report, Arturo Lascanas, Davao City ghost ermployees, Davao death squad, Rodrigo Duterte

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    Categories Commentary

    The hazard of watching legislative hearings

    By Ellen T. Tordesillas  |  Mar 09, 2017 7:08 AM

    Watching legislative hearings is bad for the health. You develop superiority complex and that’s not healthy.

    Arturo Lascanas, Davao death squad

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