Sotto is Senate President, Morales’ 2017 net worth, PH on Chinese bombers | Evening wRap

Today on Rappler:

Tito Sotto, the Senate’s most senior lawmaker, is elected as its new President. Malacañang accuses the husband of Lovelie Sangkola Sumera, former wife of presidential son Paolo Duterte, of using the Duterte name to fix judicial cases. Ombudsman Conchita Carpio Morales’ net worth for 2017 is P17 million more than when she first became Ombudsman in 2011. Malacañang says President Rodrigo Duterte has fired Transportation Assistant Secretary Mark Tolentino for allegedly making deals with one of the President’s sisters. Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque says the Philippine government will express its concern over the presence of Chinese bombers in the Paracel Islands ‘in the bilateral mechanism we have agreed upon with’ Beijing.