Selective accountability threatens to undercut Philippine anti-graft push - BusinessWorld Online

Selective accountability threatens to undercut Philippine anti-graft push - BusinessWorld Online

By Chloe Mari A. Hufana, Reporter PHILIPPINE anti-corruption efforts risk losing their deterrent effect unless investigations begin to reach senior political and business figures, a failure that could further erode public trust and shape behavior within the government in the years ahead, an analyst said. The public is less unsettled by the absence of arrests than by a pattern in which enforcement actions appear to stop short of individuals with …