A sacred cow still
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The past seems to catch up with every individual, including--hopefully--former President Fidel V. Ramos, who has remained until now, beyond reach of any form of retribution, despite being suspected of benefiting from several questionable deals during his tenure as president.
A leaked US Embassy dispatch sent in 1995 or three years after he assumed the presidency, the process for which Sen. Miriam Santiago continues to question claiming that she was the true winner of the presidential race in 1992, showed that one of his aides in the peace process then being negotiated with the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) from which sprang the current secessionist group, the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), volunteered that the Libyan government donated P5 million to the Ramos presidential campaign.
The amount seems harmless enough, compared to the denominations running in the billions of pesos for most of the corruption allegations during the Arroyo administration but it ran counter to the law, particularly the Omnibus Elections Code that prohibits candidates for elective post to accept foreign contributions..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20110905com1.html
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