Two Philippine senators were implicated Tuesday in a massive corruption scandal involving flood-control projects that is being investigated by Congress and the government and has sparked outrage in a Southeast Asian nation prone to deadly storms and flooding.
Senators Jinggoy Estrada and Joel Villanueva strongly denied the allegations made by Brice Ericson Hernandez, a former engineer of the Department of Public Works and Highways, who testified under oath in a nationally televised House of Representatives committee on infrastructure inquiry.
