Senator Ping Lacson on Thursday alleged that two P100-million infrastructure projects in Taguig linked to Sen. Alan Peter Cayetano’s political bailiwick were “double appropriations” under the 2025 national budget, raising fresh questions over alleged anomalous spending.

Lacson said the two slope protection projects appeared identical, suggesting that one could be a “ghost” project because separate appropriations were made for what appeared to be the same undertaking.

The latest findings by Lacson’s office increased to P2.385 billion the value of suspected anomalous projects in Taguig, which he claimed formed part of the P6.8 billion in alleged budget insertions linked to Cayetano.

“From P2.085 billion as earlier reported, we found three P100 million additional slope protection projects for a new total of P2.385 billion insertions under the 2025 GAA. Two items appear to be double appropriations, involving two P100 million appropriations for the same slope protection project. One of the two must be ghost,” Lacson wrote on X.

The latest allegations further intensified the dispute between the two senators, which began after Cayetano attempted to unseat then-Senate President Vicente “Tito” Sotto III before he himself was removed from the chamber’s leadership two weeks later.

The feud escalated after Cayetano questioned the sharp increase in Lacson’s net worth between 2022 and 2025 despite no longer holding public office.

Lacson earlier alleged that some Taguig projects involved firms owned by the detained Discaya couple but were carried out by another contractor under an alleged 5 percent royalty arrangement.