When former ombudsman Conchita Carpio Morales launched her memoir in July 2025, I was seated at a table full of lawyers. Beside me was a familiar man. I initiated a small talk and asked him about his previous work as an anti-corruption investigator. I took the chance because it’s not every day that you would get to meet Melchor Arthur Carandang, a man of integrity, and Morales’ former overall deputy ombudsman (ODO). Rodrigo Duterte despises him…