Tag: Gertrudo de Leon

UPDATED: Duterte fires Budget undersecretary over corruption allegations, 3 gov’t employees for “influence-peddling”

(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte has yet again fired a high-ranking government official and three government employees for corruption and influence-peddling. In a speech on Thursday, Duterte did not name the high-ranking official who he said was engaged in corruption, but said he fired a Budget undersecretary. Budget Secretary Ben Diokno later identified him as Gertrudo de Leon. “Corruption, didn’t I tell you I do not like corruption?…He was lucky because there were so […]