By MANILA, Philippines — A former assistant district engineer of the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) on Tuesday implicated Senators Jinggoy Estrada and Joel Villanueva in the alleged corruption in flood control projects, an accusation the two lawmakers denied.
At the second House infrastructure committee hearing on the anomalous projects, Brice Hernandez said Estrada and Villanueva received at least 30 percent in kickbacks from nearly P1 billion worth of flood control projects in Bulacan.
For this, they allegedly got a 30-percent cut as “standard operating procedure,” Hernandez said, as he appealed to the House not to send him back to the Senate, where he is supposed to serve detention for a contempt citation.
