{"id":120234,"date":"2017-09-29T06:27:07","date_gmt":"2017-09-29T10:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=120234"},"modified":"2017-09-29T06:27:07","modified_gmt":"2017-09-29T10:27:07","slug":"amlc-denies-releasing-rodys-bank-info-to-trillanes-ombudsman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/09\/29\/amlc-denies-releasing-rodys-bank-info-to-trillanes-ombudsman\/","title":{"rendered":"AMLC denies releasing Rody’s bank info to Trillanes, Ombudsman"},"content":{"rendered":"
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President Rodrigo Roa Duterte watches as members of the Our Lady of Victory Training Center Inc. performed during a dinner hosted by the President in Malaca\u00f1an Palace on September 27, 2017. (RICHARD MADELO\/PRESIDENTIAL PHOTO)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

MANILA, Philippines\u2014The Anti-Money Laundering Council (AMLC) denied releasing information on President Rodrigo Duterte and his family\u2019s bank accounts to Senator Antonio Trillanes IV and the Office of the Ombudsman.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have categorically stated before that the Anti-Money Laundering Council (AMLC) is not the source of the documents and information attached by Senator Antonio F. Trillanes IV in his Complaint, regarding the alleged bank accounts of President Rodrigo Duterte,\u201d AMLC said in a statement.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt has neither provided the Office of the Ombudsman with any report as a consequence of any investigation of subject accounts for any purpose,\u201d it added.<\/p>\n

Overall Deputy Ombudsman Arthur Carandang said last week that the Office of the Ombudsman has secured a copy of Duterte\u2019s bank records from AMLC, documents that are \u201cmore or less\u201d the same with those attached in Trillanes\u2019 complaint.<\/p>\n

“We can confirm that we received bank transactions coming from AMLC, generated by AMLC for intelligence purpose,” Carandang said.<\/p>\n

Trillanes in April requested to AMLC the same document the Ombudsman said it had but was denied access to it. In spite of this, Trillanes was able to attach to his complaint copies of alleged transactions in Dutertes\u2019 bank accounts.<\/p>\n

Carandang claimed earlier that transactions in Duterte family\u2019s bank accounts from 2006 to 2016 amounted to hundreds of millions of pesos, a claim AMLC disputed.<\/p>\n

\u201cSuffice it to state that in the attachment to the Complaint, the alleged debits and credits representing outflows and inflows of funds were added together, thus, the resulting total amounts are wrong and misleading,\u201d AMLC said.<\/p>\n

AMLC said that it has yet to evaluate the request of Carandang to initiate investigation on subject accounts.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have yet to evaluate the request, and the initiation of an investigation, as well as the release of any report on the subject will depend on such evaluation,\u201d the agency said.<\/p>\n

Carandang is heading the Ombudsman\u2019s investigation into Dutertes\u2019 wealth, as Ombudsman Conchita Carpio-Morales inhibited from investigating the presidential family due to her ties to one of its members. Carpio-Morales is an aunt to Duterte\u2019s son-in-law, Manases Carpio, husband of Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte-Carpio.<\/p>\n

Clean up your own backyard<\/strong><\/p>\n

Amidst the investigation of the Ombudsman into Duterte\u2019s wealth, the president warned the former to investigate corruption in its own agency or he will be forced to create a commission that will probe it.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou have to be investigated also. One of these days, kayo ang sigurado kong hahabulin dahil nga sa<\/em> partiality ninyo<\/em> [you are the ones I will hound because of your partiality]. \u2018Pag hindi ninyo imbestigahan ang sarili ninyo, ako ang mag<\/em>-set up ng<\/em> [If you won\u2019t investigate yourselves, I will set up a] commission to investigate you as a President with investigating powers,\u201d Duterte said.<\/p>\n

\u201cDon\u2019t force my hand into it. I will set up a commission to investigate the Ombudsman, the institution itself and all,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Duterte criticized the alleged bribery in the Ombudsman. He said that there had been occasions where the agency dismissed cases against some government and military officials in exchange of money.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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