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Dizon: Probes looking at links between Discayas, firm owned by Bong Go’s pa

Public Works Secretary Vince Dizon said on Thursday that the ongoing investigation of corruption in the government’s multibillion-peso flood control projects would spare no one, even prominent government officials like Sen. Christopher “Bong” Go.

“There will be no sacred cows here,” Dizon told reporters. “Anyone who will be implicated by the evidence will not be spared and will be held accountable. It’s as simple as that.”

“It doesn’t matter who they are—former administrations or the current administration—it doesn’t matter,” he added.

In his interview with reporters, Dizon said that he had discussed with Ombudsman Jesus Crispin Remulla starting the investigation of the possible links between the Discaya couple—Pacifico “Curlee” and Cezarah “Sarah” Discaya—and CLTG Builders, a company owned by the senator’s father.

Pacifico “Curlee” and Cezarah “Sarah” Rowena Discaya —INQUIRER PHOTO / NINO JESUS ORBETA

Call from Remulla

Asked whether Go might be linked to the Discayas, who are under investigation in the flood control probes, Dizon said: “We talked with Ombudsman Remulla last night about this. And now, we are already working to look at the documents from the previous administration.”

“That is also our target—from 2016 to 2025. That is also the mandate of the ICI (Independent Commission for Infrastructure),” Dizon explained.

Go, a longtime aide to former President Rodrigo Duterte, served as special assistant to the president before he was elected senator in 2019.

Dizon said Remulla called him on Wednesday night after the Discayas decided to stop cooperating with the ICI on the flood control investigation.

Go repeated his previous denials of any links to the Discaya couple and to his family’s business dealings.

“I don’t know the Discayas, I have nothing to do with them and I don’t care about the Discayas,” Go said in a hastily called press briefing.

‘I fear nothing’

The senator urged the Discayas to “tell the truth” as he lamented that the investigations were being diverted to protect the real masterminds in the anomalies in the flood control projects.

“Go after the real culprits, the masterminds. Look for them,” he appealed to the Ombudsman. Go did not say who were the masterminds.

He said he was “willing to be the complainant” in cases against those behind the corruption scandal, even if they were his family “if they really committed anomalies,” he said.

“Let the facts speak for themselves. I’m not hiding anything, I fear nothing because I didn’t commit any offense,” Go said.

“I am true to my oath as a public servant. And I’m not going to do anything to destroy the trust the people have given me,” he added. “I have observed ‘delicadeza’ my whole life. I will always guard the trust the people have given me.”

Brian Keith Hosaka, executive director of the ICI, said on Wednesday that the Discaya couple would no longer cooperate in the fact-finding body’s investigation.

He said they invoked their right against self-incrimination following a “personal opinion” expressed by ICI member, former Public Works Secretary Rogelio “Babes” Singson, that the couple were “principal players” and had benefitted from the corruption in the flood control projects.

Joint venture

Hosaka explained that the Discayas expected to get a “favorable recommendation from the commission as state witnesses” if they cooperated.

“So, because of that, they are now saying that they will no longer appear before the commission and cooperate,” he said.

During a Senate blue ribbon committee hearing on Sept. 1, 2025, Sarah confirmed reports that they had entered into a joint venture project with CLTG Builders in the past.

When Go asked her whether the project had involved flood control, she said she couldn’t remember.

At that point, Go declared that if that joint venture had deficiencies or irregularities, he would be the first to recommend charges against the Discayas and CLTG, even if it involved his family. CLTG is Go’s initials—Christopher Lawrence Tesoro Go.

“For the nth time, I have nothing to do with the business of my family. I don’t have anything to do with their business, I have no involvement in its operations,” Go said in a statement at that time.

125 Davao projects

In July 2024, former Sen. Antonio Trillanes IV filed a plunder complaint against Duterte for allegedly using his position as Davao City mayor and later as president to award public works contracts worth P6.6 billion to “unqualified” companies owned by Go’s father and half-brother—Deciderio Lim Go and Alfred Armero Go—who were also named as Duterte’s corespondents in the case he brought to the Department of Justice.

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Trillanes, citing official records from the Commission on Audit (COA), alleged that from March 2007 to May 2018, CLTG was awarded 125 projects in the Davao region by the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH).

He also said that some of the projects were under Duterte’s centerpiece “Build, Build, Build” infrastructure program.

According to the COA records cited in the complaint, CLTG secured 27 projects worth approximately P3.2 billion in 2017 alone.

Alfrego Builders & Supply, owned by Go’s half-brother, won 59 public works projects from June 2007 to July 2018 amounting to P1.74 billion. These also were all DPWH projects in the Davao region.

Trillanes pointed out that in 2018, Alfrego won contracts for 23 projects amounting to P1.3 billion.

Rehashed charges

“CLTG Builders and Alfrego Builders & Supply could not have been awarded the enormous projects were it not for Respondent Bong Go and his connection to the seat of power—Respondent Duterte, who is constitutionally responsible for the annual budget proposal,” read the complaint.

In response to the charges, Go said that the ex-senator’s allegations were “essentially” the same charges hurled against him in the past which he had categorically denied.

“For the record, even before I was born, my family already had a business,” he said. “What I can assure you is that neither I nor my family benefited from my being a government official.”

As early as 2018, Trillanes already sought a Senate inquiry into the possible conflict of interest in the awarding of billions of pesos worth of government contracts to companies owned by Go’s relatives.

Vice President Sara Duterte, a former ally and now an arch-critic of President Marcos, believes that linking Go to the alleged corruption of the Discaya couple in public works projects would eventually lead to her and her father.

“Whether it will reach me or not, I think so, I believe so because we are allies,” Duterte told reporters at the Pandesal Forum on Thursday. “They’ll try to link us.”

Ultimately, she said, this would lead to the former president, who is currently under the custody of the International Criminal Court in The Hague, the Netherlands, for crimes against humanity in connection with his drug war. —WITH REPORTS FROM DEMPSEY REYES, CHARIE ABARCA AND INQUIRER RESEARCH

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