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Leyte Rep. Martin Romualdez, February 5, 2025. Maria Tan, ABS-CBN News

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<div><span class="fr-img-caption fr-fic fr-dib" style="width:960px;display:block" width="960"><span class="fr-img-wrap"><img src="https://od2-image-api.abs-cbn.com/prod/editorImage/17637072362951763707233974.jpeg" style="width:960px" class="fr-fic fr-dib" width="960" alt="Leyte Rep. Martin Romualdez, February 5, 2025. Maria Tan, ABS-CBN News"/><span class="fr-inner" style="text-align:left">Leyte Rep. Martin Romualdez, February 5, 2025. <em>Maria Tan, ABS-CBN News </em></span></span></span></div><p>MANILA — Leyte Rep. Martin Romualdez on Friday said he trusts the Office of the Ombudsman to be impartial in its review of a recommendation of charges against him over alleged corruption in flood-control projects.</p><p>The Department of Public Works and Highways and Independent Commission for Infrastructure on Friday recommended plunder, graft, and bribery charges against Romualdez and resigned Ako Bicol Party-List Rep. Zaldy Co over the controversy.</p><div><a href="https://www.abs-cbn.com/news/nation/2025/11/21/dpwh-set-to-recommend-plunder-raps-vs-martin-romualdez-zaldy-co-0814"><strong>DPWH, ICI recommend plunder raps vs Martin Romualdez, Zaldy Co</strong></a></div><p>Romualdez is a former House speaker and Co is a former appropriations panel chair.</p><p>Both have been implicated in alleged &quot;insertions&quot; in the national budget bill for projects that were later found to be irregular, sub-standard, or non-existent.</p><p>&quot;I willingly submitted myself to the ICI’s fact-finding process, appeared voluntarily, and remained in the country. Throughout all these proceedings, no sworn or credible evidence has ever linked me to any irregularity, and again, my conscience remains clear,&quot; Romualdez said in a statement Friday.</p><div><a href="https://www.abs-cbn.com/news/nation/2025/11/15/zaldy-co-senate-ombudsman-should-probe-romualdez-and-marcos-over-alleged-p100-b-insertion-1249"><strong>Zaldy Co: Senate, Ombudsman should probe Romualdez and Marcos over alleged P100-B ‘insertion’<br/></strong></a></div><p>&quot;It&#x27;s now with the Ombudsman. I trust in the Ombudsman’s impartial and thorough review and evaluation. I do so with confidence that a fair and complete assessment of the record will reflect the truth,&quot; he also said.</p><p>President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., Romualdez&#x27;s cousin, said the ICI&#x27;s information would be turned over to the Office of the Ombudsman — headed by former Justice Secretary Jesus Crispin Remulla — for investigation.</p><div><a href="https://www.abs-cbn.com/news/nation/2025/11/20/remulla-says-romualdez-called-him-to-deny-involvement-with-flood-control-controversy-1735"><strong>Remulla says Romualdez called him to deny involvement with flood control controversy<br/></strong></a></div><p>“Malakas naman ang loob natin na ‘yung Ombudsman ang ginagawa lamang ay sumusunod sa ebidensya, at kung saan tayo dinadala ng ebidensya, doon pupunta ang ating imbestigasyon,&quot; he also said.</p><p>(We are confident that all the Ombudsman is doing is follow the evidence, and that the investigation will go wherever the evidence leads it) </p>

<p>"Throughout all these proceedings, no sworn or credible evidence has ever linked me to any irregularity, and again, my conscience remains clear," Romualdez also said.</p>

"Throughout all these proceedings, no sworn or credible evidence has ever linked me to any irregularity, and again, my conscience remains clear," Romualdez also said.

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Published Nov 21, 2025 02:51 PM PHT

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