President Rodrigo Duterte said he had ordered the justice ministry to launch a sweeping investigation into graft across all government agencies, conceding that his country continued to be “plagued with corruption”.
In 2016, Duterte won the presidency campaigning on a promise to fight corruption, crime and illegal drugs.
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