Philippine police and other law enforcement agencies are moving to arrest 18 suspects in a flood control corruption scandal that has ignited massive street protests and toppled powerful congressional leaders, President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. announced Friday.

At the center of the case is former Ako Bicol party-list Rep. Zaldy Co, who has resigned from the House of Representatives and fled abroad. The Sandiganbayan, the country’s anti-graft court, has issued warrants of arrest for Co and 17 others, including engineers from the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) and executives of Sunwest Corp., over alleged irregularities in a 289-million-peso river dike project in Oriental Mindoro.

The charges include one count of malversation of public funds through falsification of publi

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