Authors of the unconstitutional Disbursement Acceleration Program (DAP) should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law to deter future commission of large-scale graft and corruption, according to the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP).

Archbishop Socrates Villegas, CBCP president, issued the statement on Wednesday, a day after the Supreme Court (SC) affirmed an earlier ruling that DAP funds are illegal.

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