2016 was a record year for the Office of the Ombudsman because it filed 1,250 cases at the Sandiganbayan, the highest since 1995.

The Ombudsman filed 482 cases in 2011, the year former Supre,e Court justice Conchita Carpio Morales was appointed to head the office. The number fell to 395 in 2012 and rose to 969 in 2013. It fell again to 452 in 2014 and 357 in 2015.

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