AMLC Denies Giving President Duterte’s Bank Records To Ombudsman
The Anti-Money Laundering Council (AMLC) on Thursday,
September 28, denied providing the Office of the Ombudsman any report on the
bank records of President Rodrigo Duterte.
“We have categorically stated before that the 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,” AMLC said in a statement.
“It has neither provided the Office of the Ombudsman with
any report as a consequence of any investigation of subject accounts for any
purpose,” it added.
This follows the statement of Overall Deputy Ombudsman
Arthur Carandang that he has received a report from the AMLC, which supposedly
revealed there is a P1 billion cash flow in President Duterte’s bank accounts.
He has also confirmed the probe on the Presidential family’s
wealth, in response to a plunder complaint filed Senator Trillanes during the
2016 presidential campaign.
Carandang said the Duterte family’s transactions amount to
hundreds of millions of pesos from different banks between 2006 until 2016.
He, however, clarified that it would be difficult to
identify the total amount of deposits since money went in and out of the
Duterte family’s accounts.
“The investigation in the complaint filed by Senator Trillanes
is going on and being conducted not by FIO (Field Investigation Office) but by
the field investigation unit of our office in Davao,” Carandang told CNN
Philippines.
AMLC added that it is still evaluating the August 17 request
made by Carandang which it received on September 6, requesting the body to
initiate an investigation on President Duterte’s accounts.
“We 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. Suffice 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,” AMLC said.
Carandang, who is a relative of former Aquino administration
Communications Secretary Ricky Carandang, is leading the investigation into the
Duterte family’s wealth as Ombudsman Conchita Carpio Morales has inhibited from
the case since her nephew, Manases Carpio, is the husband of the President’s
daughter, Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte.
Amid news of the Ombudsman’s investigation into his family’s
alleged wealth, President Duterte said he would create a commission to
investigate alleged anomalies at the anti-graft body.
Meanwhile, Chief Presidential Legal Counsel Salvador Panelo warned
Carandang he should not reveal details of an ongoing investigation, otherwise
he may face administrative charges.
He also clarified reports that the Ombudsman has received a
copy of President Duterte’s bank records from the Anti-Money Laundering Council
(AMLC), showing a cash flow worth P1 billion.
“The alleged bank records of the President do not indicate
that he is hiding money in the total amount of more than P1 billion, and that
the same is ill gotten,” Panelo said.
“The alleged amount was computed based on ‘in-and-out’ bank
transactions of the President’s family through the years,” he added.
Source: CNN Philippines
AMLC Denies Giving President Duterte’s Bank Records To Ombudsman
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