More ‘whistleblowers’ coming out next year– Belgica

FORMER Presidential Anti-Corruption Commission (PACC) chairman, Greco Belgica claimed more ‘whistleblowers’ knowledgeable about the multi-billion flood control project scam and other corrupt activities linked to the administration would be coming out next year to prevent them ending up as ‘fall guys.’

Guesting at the ‘Prangkahan’ program airing at FlashTV last December 18, Belgica however, declined to name any of the witnesses.

Belgica also claimed President Marcos Junior’s decision to abolish the PACC—the President’s first action on taking office in 2022—emboldened the corrupt at the executive and legislative branches of government to return to their old ways.

The PACC was created under the term of President Rodrigo Duterte and served as the Palace’s “overseer” to ensure that corruption is reduced to the minimum

While Belgica conceded that corruption also persisted under the previous administration including the commission of ‘ghost projects,’ it has not reached the scale that the country is witnessing today, where upwards to P1.9 trillion have been siphoned off by corrupt officials during the first half of the Marcos administration.

He also expressed disappointment to the present goings on at the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee chaired by Senator Panfilo Lacson, an ally of the President.

Belgica noted that rather than investigating the allegations of former Ako Bicol congressman and House Appropriations chair, Zaldy Co that he delivered money to the President and former House Speaker Ferdinand Martin Romualdez as their share in the flood control project scam, the SBRC, under Lacson, chose to remain uninterested and is now diverting public attention to the investigation of the corruption at the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR).