This is a cautionary note for all the bureaucrats and allies of the Aquino administration who are falling all over themselves in attacking and pressuring Czech ambassador Josef Rychtar for exposing publicly the attempted extortion of $30 million by Filipino officials from a Czech transport equipment supplier in the supply of train coaches to the Metro Rail Transit(MRT) system.
The issue is extremely sensitive to the administration because since its exposure in the media (first reported by this paper last year by its chairman emeritus Dante Ang), the scandal has engulfed top officials of the Department of Transportation and Communications (DOTC) and MRT, and has threatened to ensnare as well close relations of President Aquino.
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