Graft-busting grandma jailing corrupt Philippine politicians
10 years agoThis picture taken on August 23, 2016 shows Philippine Ombudsman Conchita Carpio-Morales gesturing during an interview at the Office of the Ombudsman in Manila. After four decades in the country's notoriously corrupt judiciary, Morales was looking forward to retirement when former president Benigno Aquino asked her to head a special body to prosecute corrupt officials as part of his centrepiece anti-graft crusade. On August 31, her "moral courage and commitment to justice in taking head-on one of the most intractable problems in the Philippines," is set to be recognised when she will be awarded the Ramon Magsaysay Award - Asia's version of the Nobel. / AFP PHOTO / NOEL CELIS /
The Philippines' top graft-buster, a fearless grandmother who has sued politicians from the president down in her quest to rid her country of corruption, laughs in the face of death threats -- literally.