House opposition presses probe into leakage of Corona bank documents

5:11 am | Monday, February 20th, 2012

Rep. Danilo Suarez. INQUIRER FILE PHOTO

The opposition wants the House of Representatives to conduct a probe into the “serious breach” of bank secrecy laws with the leakage of bank documents of impeached Chief Justice Renato Corona that could involve members of the House majority.

House Minority Leader Danilo Suarez said his group would file a resolution this week urging the House committee on banks and financial intermediaries to investigate how Corona’s bank documents from Philippine Savings Bank (PSBank) surfaced in the impeachment trial without Corona’s consent.

Suarez said his group would also ask the committee, chaired by Leyte Representative Sergio Apostol, to look into the conflicting statements of Oriental Mindoro Representative Reynaldo Umali and Quezon City Representative Jorge Banal.

Umali claimed that a “small lady” gave him the bank documents, while Banal said the documents were sent to his house by a concerned citizen.

Suarez said the probe would determine if PSBank and its personnel were liable under the bank secrecy law for leaking details of Corona’s accounts.

The minority is apparently taking its cue from the Corona defense team which claimed that members of the prosecution panel should be investigated by the House committee on ethics for peddling illegally obtained documents. Gil C. Cabacungan

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Tags: Bank Secrecy Law , Benigno Aquino III , Congress , Corona Impeachment , Government , Judiciary , Politics , Renato Corona , Senate , Supreme Court

huey_4ph

Kasi, as Bank President Garcia divulged tosday, there are also politically exposed woner accounts in their bank stashed by those people who opposed the opening og the foreign deposit. By protecting and say” rule of law” they can hide and thus take precedent and can npt be opened. I scratch your back you sratch mine. Get to know the 13 senators who stick to the rule of law and maybe some of them have accounts like corona.
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_7IGQYIPU6AFTVRJ742XT2X44M4 Jef

What is your objectives Cong Suarez…to file a criminal case…and send him on jail…pasalamat ka nga dahil lumabas yong katotohanan….remember isang tao lang ang involved dito sa impeachment…. no other than the CJ himself…buti sana kung may ibang kasamang pangalan bank account document….like senator BRENDA and JOKER….eh wala eh…isa lang yong involved sa impeachment trial…..dapat pa nga parangalan yong naglabas gawin HERO dahil inilabas nya yong katotohanan…….

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001173232085 Nor Flaw

JEF, you are nothing but a bigot. you speak like you know the law. blatantly, rep. suarez is acting with accordance to the law and basically philippines is being governed by the law. i hope one line is enough for you.

napmat

Ganon ang ginagawa ng AMLAC dahil ang director dyan ay si Vicente Aquino kamaganak ni pnoy at parihong kalbo. Kung may hingala ang malacanang sa account ni corona pinapatingnan nila ng amlac sa bangko dahil AMLAC lang ang puedeng tumingin ng (Political Exposed Persons) PEP account sa bangko. Dahil walang maikaso ang AMLAC sa kay Corona, impeachment na lang dahil sa tingin nila kung ang property ay wala sa SALN ay maiimpeach na. Puedeng kasohan ng AMLAc ang PEP account o si corona kung mayron syang deniposito ng mahigit P500 thousand na walang documentong pinagkunan nito. Ang example nito ay ang galing sa jueteng, kidnapping for ransom o galing sa drugs o galing sa pandurugas ng isang government official. Kasohan nila si Corona kung mayrong nagreklamong nagbayad kay corona upang makakuha ng favor desisyon. Ang problema sa malakanang walang nagreklamo para kay corona. At ang lahat na deposit ay mayrong documento na pinagkunan nito. Example kung nag deposito ng P6 million pero ang document ay ang pagkabenta ng condominium ng bale P6 million, ito’y walang problema. Ciguradong may problema ang nag examine ng account ni Corona dahil di puedeng tingnan ang FCDU account exept kung pumayag si Corona. Inutusan lang din sya ni Vicente Aquino na pinayagan din ng BSP Governor na syang Chairman ng AMLAC. Di puedeng hindi sundin ng BSP governor dahil itong si Governor Tetangco ay inextend ang kanyang termino ni Pnoy.

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