跟进：议员作证称马科斯2024年曾当面斥责罗穆亚尔德斯的预算插项：涉20%回扣说法
菲律宾反贪法院 Sandiganbayan 第三庭审理前众议长罗穆亚尔德斯掠夺案的保释聆讯上，Navotas 众议员 Toby Tiangco 作证说，总统马科斯早在2024年11月24日就当面斥责过其表弟罗穆亚尔德斯：那天是周日，马科斯在总统官邸 Bahay Pangulo 的家庭午餐上把罗穆亚尔德斯从 Tacloban 电话召回，历时约一个半小时，斥责2025年预算中的项目插项与回扣问题。
按 Tiangco 的证词，马科斯当时说，他知道时任拨款委员会主席 Zaldy Co 向同事就每个插项项目索取20%的佣金。Tiangco 还讲了自己的经历：2023年，他想绕过 Co、经另一名亲罗穆亚尔德斯的议员为 Navotas 插入一个2亿比索项目，对方仍通报了 Co，Co 因他是总统姻亲，把回扣从20%降到10%，他最终放弃了该项目。他在聆讯中还谈到所谓20%的费率与众议院给2025年预算增加的约2,090亿比索项目，称名单来自已故公共工程部副部长 Catalina Cabral 与前副议长 Jay-Jay Suarez。
同场聆讯上，公共工程部规划司司长 Peter Paul Cortez 作证说，该部数据库把罗穆亚尔德斯标注为约274亿比索基建项目的提议人，标注是按 Cabral 的指示录入的，但他承认从未与罗穆亚尔德斯本人或其幕僚谈过这些项目。罗穆亚尔德斯与 Co 被控在2022年至2025年间从防洪与基础设施项目收取74.4亿比索回扣，罗穆亚尔德斯否认全部指控并作无罪抗辩；Co 此前曾在视频中称预算插项是马科斯下令的，马拉坎南宫称其说法纯属传闻。
关联：菲律宾前众议长罗穆亚尔德斯被反贪法院停职90天 涉74.4亿比索基建回扣案
Follow-Up: Lawmaker Testifies Marcos Confronted Romualdez Over Budget Insertions in 2024, Citing a 20 Percent Kickback Claim
Testifying at the Sandiganbayan Third Division's bail hearing in the plunder case against former House Speaker Martin Romualdez, Navotas Representative Toby Tiangco said President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. had confronted his cousin over budget insertions and kickbacks as early as November 24, 2024. At a Sunday family lunch at the presidential residence Bahay Pangulo, Marcos summoned Romualdez back by phone from Tacloban and berated him for about an hour and a half over project insertions in the 2025 budget, Tiangco testified.
According to Tiangco, Marcos said he knew that Zaldy Co, then chairman of the appropriations committee, was demanding a 20 percent commission from colleagues for each inserted project. Tiangco also described his own experience: in 2023 he tried to bypass Co by asking another lawmaker close to Romualdez to insert a 200-million-peso project for Navotas, but Co was alerted anyway and, because Tiangco is a presidential relative by marriage, offered to cut his commission from 20 percent to 10 percent; Tiangco dropped the project. In the hearing he also discussed the alleged 20 percent rate and roughly 209 billion pesos in projects the House added to the 2025 budget, saying lists came from the late Public Works Undersecretary Catalina Cabral and former Deputy Speaker Jay-Jay Suarez.
At the same hearing, Public Works Programming Division chief Peter Paul Cortez testified that the department's database tagged Romualdez as the proponent of about 27.4 billion pesos in infrastructure projects, entered on Cabral's instructions, while admitting he had never spoken with Romualdez or his staff about them. Romualdez and Co are accused of receiving 7.44 billion pesos in kickbacks from flood-control and infrastructure projects between 2022 and 2025; Romualdez has denied all charges and pleaded not guilty. Co previously claimed in videos that Marcos ordered the insertions, which Malacañang has dismissed as hearsay.
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