After key official’s death, can Philippines’ flood-control probe still deliver answers?

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Source: scmp.com
After key official’s death, can Philippines’ flood-control probe still deliver answers?
The death of a senior public works official alleged to have played a central role in the billion-peso flood-control scandal in the Philippines has cast fresh doubt over the future of a months-long corruption probe, with investigators now facing questions over lost testimony and compromised evidence. Legal analysts say the investigations now risk unravelling altogether, warning that the probe is “in peril” after the loss of a figure seen as pivotal to understanding how alleged budget manipulation...