CAUSE AND EFFECT? March 29, 2016 newspaper article on the fiasco (top). August 9, 2018 British paper’s coverage on the (fiasco’s) result, below.
However, Aquino claimed the project was ridden with corruption, and ordered it stopped in November 2010. I was told he even asked Sen. Franklin Drilon’s law firm to investigate it to the extent of even interviewing BDZ officials in Brussels. Six years after going through all the records, not a single hint of corruption was found.