FAKE! that is comment ofChief Presidential Legal Counsel Salvador Panelo regarding Senator Antonio Triallanes IV allegations regarding the President
Rodrigo Duterte’s bank transactions.
Senator Antonio Trillanes IV has been the fiercest critic of the President
after Senator Leile De Lima was detained in Camp Crame on drug related charges.
Last February, the senator reiterated his initial claim and showed copies of
bank documents allegedly that of the president.
Trillanes has been throwing everything except the kitchen
sink to so to speak as regards his intention of bringing down the President
from Malacañan palace. The Chief Presidential Legal Counsel had to slammed Overall
Deputy Ombudsman Arthur Carandang for giving premature disclosure of the
documents the Ombudsman is said to be holding.
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| Chief Presidential Legal Counsel Salvador Panelo (left) calls the documents being submitted by Senator Antonio Trillanes IV with his complaint as FAKE(photo credit to abs-cbn website) |
The Anti-Money Laundering Council denied providing the
President bank transactions to anybody, most especially to the Office of the
Ombudsman- which was allegedly investigating the alleged hidden wealth of the
incumbent president.
“Sa madali’t sabi, peke iyong mga attachment na inilagay ni
Trillanes sa kanyang complaint, peke din iyong mga pahayag ni Deputy Ombudsman
[Arthur] Carandang,” Panelo said in a radio interview with Radio Pilipinas.
"It (AMLC) has neither provided the Office of the
Ombudsman with any report as a consequence of any investigation of subject accounts
for any purpose," Anti-Money Laundering Council said in a statement.
Panelo reiterated that the premature disclosure of bank documents by the president by Carandang which represents the office of the Ombudsman is in direct
violation of the Code of Conduct and Ethical Standards of Pubic Officials and
Employees.
Overall Deputy Arthur Carandang was quoted as saying that his agency received
the president's bank records from 2006 up to 2016 from Anti-Money Laundering
Council.
"We can confirm that we received bank transactions from AMLC,"
Carandang was quoted as saying. "There were P40 millions ... P50 million
... there were many."
Panelo warned: “We’re just reminding him of their own internal rules,
rules implementing the law. He might have forgotten it.” *
Carandang served as the chair of the Anti-Corruption and Transparency
Network (ACT-NET) during APEC 2015. He also helped in drafting the United
Nations Convention on Corruption in 2003.
Trillanes, one of the fiercest critics of Duterte, first alleged that Duterte had unexplained wealth during the national elections campaign in 2016.
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