If you’re wondering why there was a deluge of disinformation coming from Sara Duterte herself on the alleged incident of her father being found unconscious in the ICC, it’s because of this…
According to Bilyunaryo news outlet, the Anti-Money Laundering Council has frozen 425 bank accounts in 12 banks after tracing a jaw-dropping ₱180 billion that coursed through them from 2016 to 2025, bulk which during the Duterte years.
Hundreds of billions that went straight into the pockets of Curlee and Sarah Discaya, the so-called flood-control “king and queen.”
Four Discaya-linked contractors siphoned off the bulk of the cash. St. Gerrard Construction got a ₱70.53 billion windfall from 2014 to 2025, with ₱4.6 billion in 2017 alone.
St. Timothy Construction cornered ₱48.3 billon worth of contracts that exploded by 115,000% from 2016–2019.
Alpha & Omega General Contractor saw ₱45 billion DPWH inflows since 2016, peaking at ₱7 billon in 2022, or up 16,000% since 2016
St. Matthew General Contractor got ₱18.8 billion, with ₱16.4 billion flowing into its bank accounts mostly after 2016.
The timeline is damning. Money started flowing the moment Duterte took office in 2016, surging year after year. Sarah herself admitted their firms only entered flood-control projects in 2016.
The AMLC flagged classic laundering red flags as well. DPWH billions routed from regional and district offices, round-tripping deposits and withdrawals, and frantic inter-account transfers to cover the trail. St. Timothy even pulled off a single-day transfer of ₱571.55 million.
Senator Ping Lacson has already revealed the Discayas cornered a staggering ₱207 billion in projects between 2016 and 2025, more than half awarded squarely during Duterte’s term.
Now you know why Duterte-allied Senators would do just about anything to prevent the Discayas from exposing the bulk of their contracts during the Duterte era.
And the AMLC has confirmed what everyone knew all
along, only that the DDS and their propagandists were doing all they can to prevent the damning truth from coming out.
Including making up a story about Digong bumping his head and suffering from “cranial injury”.
The only cranial injury manifest here is the continued denial of the DDS that Digong presided over what is perhaps the most corrupt post-Martial Law era our country has ever seen.
²Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.
You see a person’s true colors when you are no longer beneficial to their life.
When everything is good, when you’re giving, helping, supporting, or offering something they can gain, people will smile, call you “friend,” and act like they’re always there for you. But life has a way of exposing intentions. The moment you can no longer serve their interests, when you have nothing left to give, or when you simply say “no”… that’s when masks fall off. That’s when you see who truly cared for you, and who only cared about what they could get from you.
True colors are revealed in silence, in distance, in the absence of benefits. Some people will fade away the moment you stop being “useful.” Some will treat you differently once they realize you’re not their convenience anymore. That’s not a loss, that’s revelation. It’s not betrayal, it’s clarity.
And on the other side, there are those rare, genuine souls who stay when you’re at your lowest. They don’t count what you can do for them; they simply choose you for who you are. Those are the people you need to treasure, because loyalty and sincerity are priceless.
So don’t be disappointed when people walk away after you can no longer serve their needs. Take it as life’s way of removing the fake and making room for the real. Not everyone in your life is meant to stay forever, some are just lessons, while others are blessings.
Surround yourself with those who stand with you when you have nothing to give but yourself. That’s how you know who truly matters.
#fblifestyle
*Pagod na kami, Ralph Recto
Bawat taon na lang, may bagong tax reform. Ngayong 2025, ikaw na naman ang pasimuno. May panibagong VAT Rationalization, fuel excise indexation, at kung anu-ano pang panukala na pormal pakinggan, pero sa totoo lang, dagdag na gastos na naman para sa amin.
