Mark Chua (other)
Mark Chua may refer to: * Mark Chua, Singaporean businessman who was implicated in the 2017 Ilocos Norte Tobacco Excise Tax funds controversy * Mark Welson Chua, Filipino student of the University of Santo Tomas who exposed alleged irregularities in the Reserve Officers' Training Corps unit of the university; see Death of Mark Chua {{human name disambiguation, Chua, Mark ...
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Ilocos Norte Tobacco Excise Tax Funds Controversy
In May 2017, the House of Representatives of the Philippines began an investigation into alleged misuse of tobacco excise tax funds in the province of Ilocos Norte from 2010 to 2016, representing the first two gubernatorial terms of Imee Marcos, who was serving her third and last gubernatorial term at the time the investigation was initiated. Marcos, her longtime partner Mark Chua, and six Ilocos Norte local officials - Pedro Agcaoili, Eden Batulayan, Josephine Calajete, Encarnacion Gaor, Genedine Jambaro, and Evangeline Tabulog - were implicated in the investigation. In July 2018 the House Committee on Good Government recommended that charges be filed against the persons implicated, leading the Office of the Ombudsman to initiate its own "fact-finding investigation" to determine whether a formal investigation will be opened. Background Tobacco dependence in the Ilocos region Ilocos Norte was one of the provinces Spanish colonial Governor-General, José Basco y Vargas placed u ...
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