P27-B projects Romualdez allegedly proposed didn't go through regular process, says DPWH exec

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Several projects, worth P27 billion and which listed former Speaker Martin Romualdez as their proponent, didn't go through the regular process, an official of the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) said on Monday.

According to a report on "24 Oras," Peter Paul Cortez, division chief of the Programming Division and Planning Service of the DPWH, testified in Romualdez's bail hearing that this involves 400 infrastructure projects.

The Leyte congressman is facing a P7.4-billion plunder case before the Sandiganbayan.

Cortez said the projects that the late DPWH Usec. Esperanza Cabral ordered listed were not included in the National Expenditure Program. He called these insertions.

Romualdez has repeatedly denied that he received kickbacks from government projects. –NB, GMA News