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DICT intel fund a backdoor for corruption, civil rights violations —Karapatan

Human rights group Karapatan called for an independent investigation of intelligence and confidential funds allocated for all government agencies, as it slammed the allocation of such funds for the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT). The rights group made the statement following the revelations of DICT Undersecretary Eliseo Rio, who resigned from his post on Monday, February 3, over anomalies on the use of the department’s confidential funds.

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