PHILIPPINES - GHOST PROJECTS AND CASINO CHIPS

By Maricel Dimaculangan · 4 parts · 15 h 24 min · English

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Forty years of Philippine crime, from the Marcos fortune to the flood-control arrests of 2026, told as one business: the cut for whoever could stop it. A numbers game that paid the police and brought down a president; a pork-barrel network of foundations that fed no one; stolen Bangladeshi dollars turned into Manila casino chips; offshore gaming compounds and a mayor the courts found was a Chinese national; a drug war whose reward tiers a former colonel swore to before Congress; and flood-control cash carried, a witness testified, in grocery boxes. Covers Joseph Estrada and jueteng, Janet Lim-Napoles and her foundations, RCBC and the Bangladesh Bank money, Alice Guo and the Bamban compound, Rodrigo Duterte and the International Criminal Court, and Martin Romualdez, Zaldy Co and the flood-control cases.

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1. Part 01

   3:07:30

2. Part 02

   3:35:17

3. Part 03

   3:57:54

4. Part 04

   4:43:16

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