The efforts have focused on undermining the ICC itself, targeting victims and witnesses and normalising mockery of the dead
In an affidavit, the men alleged the money, which they said came from government flood-control projects, had also been used to bribe ICC investigators.
The Philippine Navy later said four of the 18 had never been members of the Marines or Navy, while most of the remaining signatories had been dishonourably discharged.
One politician named in the affidavit, Representative Leila de Lima, questioned how she could have received the alleged cash when she had not yet been elected to office and was, at the time, in solitary confinement over drug-trafficking charges she has previously described as politically motivated.
