Coronavirus: Philippines’ plan to sell Japanese war reparations properties is ‘crooked’ Locsin says, contradicting Duterte

The Philippine foreign secretary Teodoro Locsin Jnr has denounced as “crooked” his own government’s plan to sell its properties in Japan to fund the fight against the coronavirus.Government officials, apparently backed by President Rodrigo Duterte, had floated a plan to sell five state-owned properties, four of which were given to the Philippines by Japan as part of reparations for the Second World War, during which an estimated 300,000 to 500,000 Filipinos died; while a fifth property was…

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