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Duterte Won’t Cooperate in Corruption Probe

DEFIANCE

Accused of failing to disclose hundreds of millions of pesos.

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Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte has vowed that he won’t cooperate with a corruption probe seeking information about the president’s alleged failure to disclose hundreds of millions of pesos. “I will not submit to the jurisdiction,” the strongman said in a speech on Saturday, calling the allegations against him “lies based on baseless” information. Despite Duterte’s defiant stance, his spokesman last week said that the president respected the probe.

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