A 12 months of Rappler investigations

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FLOOD CONTROL CORRUPTION SCANDAL IGLESIA NI CRISTO OTHER RAPPLER INVESTIGATIONS AND EXPLAINERS TRANSLATED VERSIONS

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Due to suggestions and leads from the neighborhood, Rappler was in a position to look into 5 names linked to the flood management corruption scandal throughout eight full-blown investigations

MANILA, Philippines – On July 23, photographs of a cardboard cutout of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. standing behind a podium went viral on Filipinos’ social media feeds. The President’s standee was partly submerged in knee-deep flood alongside a residential road. Beside it, Greenpeace activists held an enormous banner that stated, “That is the state of the nation.”

It was a couple of days earlier than the President was to ship his fourth State of the Nation Tackle. The nation was reeling from the aftermath of Tropical Storm Crising (Wipha) and the southwest monsoon. Filipinos have been reminded of the President’s one-year-old SONA promise of addressing the nation’s persisting flood downside.

Inevitably, the President was compelled to place emphasis on the problem on SONA day. Two weeks later, Marcos launched a listing of 15 contractors that had secured a considerable portion of government-implemented flood management tasks, triggering one of many largest information coverages within the nation — even larger than the 2025 election protection.

Most of Rappler’s 12 investigative tales in 2025 appeared into the flood management corruption scandal.

Over the previous a number of months, we have been in a position to look into 41 names linked to the scandal as of posting time (due to the neighborhood’s suggestions and leads). We have been in a position to do full-blown investigations into 5 of these names, the hyperlinks to that are discovered beneath.

Other than the flood management scandal, Rappler additionally took the time to look into the rise of Senator Rodante Marcoleta in 2025, exploring the political energy of the influential Iglesia ni Cristo — well timed, as 2025 marks the tenth 12 months for the reason that INC scandal blew up in 2015.

In August, Rappler compiled all investigations and in-depth tales tackling the large church scandal. The hyperlink to the compilation can be discovered beneath.

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