Seven people have been arrested in the Philippines as part of an investigation into a sprawling corruption scandal related to flood control projects in the Southeast Asian country, Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr has announced.

The suspects are among more than a dozen people indicted by the Sandiganbayan, a special anticorruption court, in the first of what are expected to be numerous probes into so-called “ghost” infrastructure projects.

The arrests come two months after Marcos formed a commission to look into the scandal, which the Department of Finance estimates cost the country up to 118.5 billion pesos ($2bn), after thousands of people took to the streets of Manila in September to demand accountability.

In a video address shared on Facebook on Monday, Marcos said two wante

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