{"id":208841,"date":"2019-04-07T22:33:47","date_gmt":"2019-04-08T02:33:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=208841"},"modified":"2019-04-07T22:33:47","modified_gmt":"2019-04-08T02:33:47","slug":"duterte-slams-pcij-report-on-familys-wealth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/04\/07\/duterte-slams-pcij-report-on-familys-wealth\/","title":{"rendered":"Duterte slams PCIJ report on family\u2019s wealth"},"content":{"rendered":"
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FILE: President Rodrigo Roa Duterte delivers his speech during the 25th National Federation of the Motorcycle Clubs of the Philippines Annual National Convention at the Iloilo Convention Center in Iloilo City on April 6, 2019. SIMEON CELI JR.\/PRESIDENTIAL PHOTO<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0— President Rodrigo R. Duterte has criticized the report of the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism (PCIJ) for scrutinizing his family\u2019s wealth and accused journalists of\u00a0being paid hacks.<\/p>\n

\u201cEh ngayon, tinitira kami ng mga anak ko. All about lawyering. Ano ba naman pakialam nila na<\/em>\u00a0(Now, me and my children are being targeted. All about lawyering. What do they care about (what happened to my law office)?\u201d Duterte said in a speech in Iloilo City on Saturday (April 6).<\/p>\n

\u201cHuwag na kami<\/em>\u00a0(Don\u2019t include us).\u00a0Kasi kami what we earned outside is none of your business actually. Yung ano na may mga negosyo kami, may mga law office kami<\/em>\u00a0(That we have a law office business),\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Duterte was irked by the report which claimed that the law firm owned by his family is not registered and some business interests are not disclosed.<\/p>\n

He said he did not find it necessary to put other business interests in his Statements of Assets, Liabilities, and Net worth (SALN) because he did not own them personally.<\/p>\n

He added that his mother, Soledad, has fed him even when he was Davao City mayor.<\/p>\n

\u201cMaski na noong mayor na ako, ang nagpapakain sa akin nanay ko. \u2018Yung nanay ko ang may pera<\/em>\u00a0(Even when I was mayor, my mother as the one feeding me. My mother had money),\u201d Duterte said.<\/p>\n

The President, meanwhile, claimed journalists who wrote the PCIJ report were paid to do so.<\/p>\n

\u201cMakita mo \u2018yung utak ng mga investigative journalism kaya\u2026 Pera-pera lang. Binabayaran \u2018yan kung ganun kalaki.<\/em>(You can see how the minds of investigative journalists work. They just want money. They\u2019re paid huge amounts),\u201d Duterte said.<\/p>\n

In its report, the PCIJ discovered that the law firms Carpio & Duterte Lawyers entity, which has presidential daughter and Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte-Carpio and husband Manases as partners, has not registered at all with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) since it was established.<\/p>\n

\u201cPCIJ has secured a dozen written certifications from the SEC that the Carpio & Duterte Lawyers and 11 other possible derivative names (i.e. Carpio Duterte Lawyers, Carpio Duerte Law Office, etc.) are not registered entities at all as of this posting,\u201d the PCIJ report read.<\/p>\n

Another PCIJ report found that out that he and his children, Sara and resigned Davao City Vice Mayor Paolo Duterte, have spikes in their wealth during their years in public office<\/p>\n

\u201c…The President, Sara, and Paolo have all consistently grown richer over the years, even on the modest salaries they have received for various public posts, and despite the negligible retained earnings reflected in the financial statements of the companies they own or co-own,\u201d the report read.<\/p>\n

Duterte, meanwhile, vowed to fulfill his campaign promises of keeping law and order in the country and stopping graft and corruption before his term ends in 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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