METRO MANILA – Former Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) officials in Central Visayas have been convicted of of graft by the Sandiganbayan 6th Division in connection with the decorative lampposts in Lapu-Lapu City, Cebu, which were installed during the 12th Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) summit in 2007. The Sandiganbayan’s Sixth Division sentenced then-DPWH Regional Director Robert …

KUALA LUMPUR – A witness was told that the RM5 mil withdrawn from a Maybank branch was meant for “RM”, the High Court heard. Razak Othman, a businessman and also the eight prosecution witness for Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor’s graft trial was told about the RM5 mil transported to RM from his friend and business partner, Saidi Abang Samsuddin (then …