Bank Account Of Ronnie Dayan Receives Millions From De Lima, Aguirre Said

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Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre III said on Thursday that the bank account that allegedly receiving millions of pesos from Senator Leila de Lima when she was the Justice Secretary belonged to her former employee which is her driver. 

An affidavit against De Lima was executed by Mr. Jonathan "Jong" Caranto that she (de Lima) instructed him to deposit millions of pesos to the bank account of Ronnie Dayan, Aguirre stressed out.

There were two affidavits against de Lima executed by her former personnel namely Caranto and the other one is a certain Edna "Bogs" Obuyes. 

President Duterte tagged Ronnie Dayan as de Lima's bagman who collected the money offered to her by the drug lords.

“Binibigyan daw sya (Caranto) ng pera ni De Lima para ideposit dun sa account ni Dayan,” Aguirre told media after attending a Senate hearing.

“Merong affidavit, walang pumilit sa kanila, voluntary,” Aguirre said, adding that the two just wanted to clear their names.

Aguirre said that the two were willing to undergo lie detector test to prove their allegations.

The money in the account would not be commensurate to the salaries of the two employees, Agurrie added.

“Hindi maliliit lang ang sweldo nila,” said the DOJ chief.

“Hindi pa nga tapos yung investigation namin so tingnan natin kung paaano mali-link, kung mali-link ba yun sa kanya o hindi.”

Aguirre said that there are other people who wanted to come out and speak of what they know about the alleged corruption in the New Bilibid Prison when de Lima was the Justice Secretary before.

Source: INQUIRER