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Flooded part of  Barangay Meyto, Calumpit, Bulacan, in this photo taken on September 10, 2025. SumbongSaPangulo.ph listed seven flood control projects in Barangays Meyto and San Jose, Calumpit, Bulacan—worth hundreds of millions of pesos and supposedly completed between 2023 and 2024 under the Bulacan First District Engineering Office, which is under scrutiny for alleged ghost projects in the province. Jonathan Cellona, ABS-CBN News

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FLOOD CONTROL PROBE - CALUMPIT

Kaxandra Salonga

ABS-CBN News

<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/177553853806320250910-flood-control-barangay-meyto-JC0333.jpg" style="width:960px" class="fr-fic fr-dib" width="960"/><span class="fr-inner" style="text-align:left">Flooded part of  Barangay Meyto, Calumpit, Bulacan, in this photo taken on September 10, 2025. <em>Jonathan Cellona, ABS-CBN News</em></span></span></span></div><p>MANILA (<strong>UPDATED</strong>) —The Sandiganbayan has subpoenaed a Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) records custodian to hand over documents related to a structure located near the reported site of an alleged ghost flood control project in Pandi, Bulacan.</p><div><a class="fr-green fr-strong" href="https://www.abs-cbn.com/news/nation/2026/2/20/sandiganbayan-division-concludes-preliminary-conference-on-revilla-graft-case-1413">Sandiganbayan 4th division concludes preliminary conference on Revilla graft case</a></div><p>Associate Justice Ronald Moreno issued the subpoena during the bail hearing for the malversation case involving former Sen. Ramon “Bong” Revilla Jr. and several officials from the DPWH Bulacan 1st District.</p><p>The order came after Kenneth Fernandez, officer-in-charge district engineer of the DPWH 1st District Engineering Office in Bulacan, testified that he found “completed” structures at a site in Pandi, Bulacan that he inspected with the assistance of accused DPWH engineer Arjay Domasig.</p><p>However, Fernandez said the area Domasig brought them to did not match the coordinates listed in the project detail matrix for the flood control project material in the case.</p><div><a class="fr-green fr-strong" href="https://www.abs-cbn.com/news/nation/2025/9/19/philippines-ghost-flood-projects-leave-residents-stranded-1129">Philippines &#x27;ghost&#x27; flood projects leave residents stranded</a></div><p>During the hearing, Fernandez plotted on Google Earth the stretch of the project site he said was being referred in the case, using the coordinates from the project detail matrix.</p><p>He said there are no visible structures and only bushes were found in the area.</p><p>Fernandez also plotted the other site he inspected with Domasig, which he said was located near the actual site that matched the coordinates cited in the case.</p><p>To address the discrepancy, the court ordered Jason Cruz, the DPWH records custodian named by Fernandez, to submit the documents related to the other project site by Wednesday.</p><div><a class="fr-green fr-strong" href="https://www.abs-cbn.com/news/nation/2025/8/19/dpwh-chief-admits-existence-of-ghost-flood-control-projects-vows-probe-1233">DPWH chief admits existence of &#x27;ghost&#x27; flood control projects, vows probe</a></div><p>On Monday, Ivan Samson, an agent of the National Bureau of Investigation assigned to the Bulacan District Office, testified that he was also assisted by Domasig to a project site around November 2025, where he only observed partial concrete capping.</p><p>He previously said that although the project received a notice to proceed on April 8, 2025, it was reported to be 95.17 percent complete after just 21 days, which he described as a rapid timeline for a project of that scale.</p><p>Samson returned to the witness stand on Tuesday, the first day of trial for the graft charges against Revilla.</p><p>During cross-examination, Samson admitted he did not independently verify the claims made by former Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) Usec. Roberto Bernardo during a Senate Blue Ribbon Committee hearing, which alleged that Revilla received kickbacks in exchange for endorsing flood control projects, including the Pandi, Bulacan project.</p><p>He earlier said Bernardo&#x27;s testimony became the basis for including Revilla as a respondent in the case.</p><p>However, the prosecution clarified it still has additional evidence linking Revilla to the project, including the testimonial evidence of Bernardo’s driver.</p><p>Anthony Balisi, counsel for Revilla, said that his client is not concerned regardless of whether the project is deemed a ghost project or not.</p><p>“Whether the prosecution asserts it is ghost… or a completed project… we have no participation whatsoever or knowledge in that particular project,” Balisi said.</p><div><a class="fr-green fr-strong" href="https://www.abs-cbn.com/news/nation/2026/4/6/revilla-supporters-oppose-bernardo-s-state-witness-status-1208">Revilla supporters oppose Bernardo’s state witness status</a></div><p>“His name, his signature or anything there (in the documentary evidence presented by prosecution so far) does not link him. That’s what we’re trying to establish,” he added.</p><p>On Wednesday, Syms contractor Sally Santos is set to testify in the bail hearing.</p><div><br/></div><div><strong>RELATED VIDEOS</strong></div><div><br/><span class="fr-video fr-deletable fr-fvc fr-dvb fr-draggable" contenteditable="false" draggable="true"><iframe width="640" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/nTaM29b75qY?&amp;wmode=opaque&amp;rel=0" frameBorder="0" allowfullscreen="" class="fr-draggable"></iframe></span><span class="fr-video fr-deletable fr-fvc fr-dvb fr-draggable" contenteditable="false" draggable="true"><iframe width="640" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/0oUjE9khuHY?&amp;wmode=opaque&amp;rel=0" frameBorder="0" allowfullscreen="" class="fr-draggable"></iframe></span><span class="fr-video fr-deletable fr-fvc fr-dvb fr-draggable" contenteditable="false" draggable="true"><iframe width="640" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/CTz8aDj5HNQ?&amp;wmode=opaque&amp;rel=0" frameBorder="0" allowfullscreen="" class="fr-draggable"></iframe></span><br/></div>

<p>The Sandiganbayan has subpoenaed a DPWH records custodian to hand over documents related to a structure located near the reported site of an alleged ghost flood control project in Pandi, Bulacan.</p>

The Sandiganbayan has subpoenaed a DPWH records custodian to hand over documents related to a structure located near the reported site of an alleged ghost flood control project in Pandi, Bulacan.

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Sandiganbayan subpoenas DPWH records custodian over Bulacan flood project

Kaxandra Salonga,

ABS-CBN News

Published April 07, 2026 01:16 PM PHT

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Updated April 07, 2026 04:42 PM PHT

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