{"id":113694,"date":"2017-08-24T02:00:09","date_gmt":"2017-08-24T06:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=113694"},"modified":"2017-08-24T02:00:09","modified_gmt":"2017-08-24T06:00:09","slug":"lacson-says-hell-sue-son-if-guilty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/08\/24\/lacson-says-hell-sue-son-if-guilty\/","title":{"rendered":"Lacson says he\u2019ll sue son if guilty"},"content":{"rendered":"
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FILE: Sen. Panfilo Lacson (PNA photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cKung ginagawa niya iyon, ako mismo ang magffile ng<\/em> (If he is guilty, I myself will file) charges against him. I won\u2019t wait for Faeldon,\u201d Senator Panfilo Lacson said in a press conference on Thursday.<\/p>\n

Earlier, former Bureau of Customs (BOC) Commissioner Nicanor Faeldon, accused the Senator and his son\u2019s alleged smuggling of cement in a press briefing in Taytay. This was a day after the Senator\u2019s privilege speech about the corruption in Customs, as he claimed that Faeldon and other officials accepted a P100 million bribe.<\/p>\n

According to Faeldon, on July, Panfilo \u201cPampi\u201d Lacson Jr.\u2019s company \u2013 Bonjourno only has a capital of P20 000, but was able to export 67 shiploads of cement amounting to billions of pesos. Further, he said that Lacson Jr. wanted to pay only 50% of the freight cost, and presented\u00a0the former Commissioner fake documents to try and justify the $8 cost instead of the $16-$20. In addition, Faeldon claimed that Lacson Jr. went to his office to bribe him.<\/p>\n

\u201cHindi ako mag-e<\/em>-expose kung meron akong alam na pwedeng ibato balik sa akin<\/em> (I will not expose [the shenanigans in the Customs] if I know that something can be thrown\u00a0against me),\u201d the Senator said, and added that Faeldon should have addressed this alleged smuggling as early as he discovered it.<\/p>\n

On his privilege speech, Lacson saidd that Faeldon with other officials, and \u2018players\u2019 were accepting grease money from the \u2018tara\u2019 system.<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2019Yung sinasabi ni<\/em> Ping Lacson na may mga<\/em> player, tanong ko sa\u2019yo.<\/em> Player ka ba<\/em>? Player ba ang anak mo<\/em>? Dummy mo ba ito<\/em> (Are you a player [in smuggling]? Is your son a player? Is he your dummy)?\u201d the resigned commissioner said.<\/p>\n

Lacson however said that his namesake is not his dummy, and denied all claims thrown at him. \u201cHindi ko pinapakialaman. I have my own problems I have my own issues to confront, he is old enough,\u201d he said, admitting\u00a0that he does not know much about his son\u2019s business.<\/p>\n

The Senator however reiterated that if his son was doing something illegal, he would be the first to sue him, \u201cBetter prepare all your documents, kung meron kang tinatago d\u2019yan <\/em>(if you a really hiding anything),<\/em> better be prepared. I will not wait for other people to file charges against him. Uunahan ko pa siya <\/em>(I will be first).\u201d<\/p>\n

Lacson said that he does not know the former Customs commissioner\u2019s motive behind this, but he admitted that they exchanged text messages yesterday.<\/p>\n

He said that Faeldon texted him saying that he hopes that there will be a competent body to investigate the said expose for the good of the country, in which the Senator said he was willing to meet with the latter\u00a0whenever he was free.<\/p>\n

\u201cBakit ko raw sinira \u2018yung mga hindi kurap<\/em> ([He asked me] why I destroyed those who were not corrupt]. I don\u2019t know what he means by that. Hindi na ako nag<\/em>-reply (I did not reply anymore),\u201d the Senator added.<\/p>\n

Faeldon accused Lacson of using this issue for his plans on running for president, which the latter denied, saying that he is not young anymore and \u2018not thinking of 2022.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201cI really don\u2019t know kung ano ang kanyang<\/em> (what his) motive (is). Ang sinasagot ko lang dito ay \u2018yung isyung binato sa akin <\/em>(I am only clarifying the issue thrown at me). Kung ako sa kanya\u00a0 ayoko na makipagbalitaktakan sa kanya<\/em>. I don\u2019t want him to get back at me. Nasabi ko na lahat ng pwede kong sabihin sa aking <\/em>(If I were him, I do not like to argue \u00a0anymore. I already stated everything I can say in my) privilege speech based on what information I gathered,\u201d Lacson said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cKung ginagawa niya iyon, ako mismo ang magffile ng (If he is guilty, I myself will file) charges against him. …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":108201,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,1145,16,95],"tags":[21812,21810,21809,4943,21811,21813],"class_list":["post-113694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-headline","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-bonjourno","tag-lacson-jr","tag-lacson-faeldon","tag-privilege-speech","tag-smugglig","tag-tara-system","mauthors-bea-kirstein-t-manalaysay","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113694\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}