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Under investigation

Yedda Marie Romualdez

Tingog Sinirangan party-list representative; wife of former Speaker Martin Romualdez

Tingog Sinirangan

Accusations

  • Named alongside her husband Martin Romualdez, their two daughters, and fraternity brother Paras in a Court of Appeals order freezing assets in connection with alleged plunder, bribery, graft, and money laundering tied to flood-control kickbacks (April 2026).
  • Chairs / senior-vice-chairs the House committee on accounts, which handles the chamber's internal budget; her Tingog party-list bloc has been linked in news reports to a "P6 billion insertion" in the 2026 appropriations narrative.
  • Lead figure of Tingog Sinirangan, the party-list that defended and pushed the AKAP allocation later challenged at the Supreme Court as pork-barrel-equivalent.

Denial

No personal denial publicly attributed yet; Tingog representatives have defended AKAP as a legitimate cash-aid program and have characterised the flood-control allegations against the Romualdez family as politically motivated.

Connected events

  1. Legal consequence

    Court of Appeals freezes assets of Martin Romualdez, wife Yedda, and 2 daughters

    A Tamarind Road property in Forbes Park. Bank accounts. Insurance policies. Vehicles. The Court of Appeals froze all of it, naming former Speaker Martin Romualdez, his wife Tingog Sinirangan Rep. Yedda Marie Romualdez, their two daughters, and fraternity brother Paras, on probable cause for plunder, bribery, graft, and money laundering tied to flood-control kickbacks. The order references testimony from Christopher Esquivel and Gil Natividad Jr., two of the 18 ex-Marines witnesses who alleged delivering multi-billion-peso cash payments to Romualdez and former Ako Bicol Rep. Elizaldy Co.

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    Denial (1)

    Romualdez has repeatedly characterised the underlying allegations as "complete fabrication" and maintained he has "never received or benefited from kickbacks in any infrastructure project."