To be sure, Duterte is neither a maverick nor an eccentric. The nuance of unorthodoxy that those descriptions carry does not apply to him; he’s neither admirable nor harmless. At any rate, however superior and different, or even unique, he thinks he is, he has been unable to escape accusations of, if not stealing per se, something that suggests it. What he’s being accused of, for now, anyway, is simply hiding wealth, but wealth that, precisely because it’s hidden, inspires suspicions it was ill-gotten.