MANILA, Philippines -- The camp of Senator Manuel Villar Jr. insisted on Sunday that he did not do anything illegal or unethical in his active support of the C-5 road extension project.

?It's easy to give amounts and make wild accusations like P400 million but anytime, anywhere, Senator Villar's team is ready to show documents that there is no overprice, no anomalies and that everything was done in accordance with the law,? said Senator Alan Peter Cayetano, a Villar ally.

Cayetano said if Senators Ana Consuelo Madrigal and Panfilo Lacson were confident of their evidence, they would have filed their case against Villar before the Ombudsman and not the Senate acting as the Committee of the Whole.

?This is simply part of their drama and script,? the senator said.

Villar's chief legal officer, lawyer Nalen Galang said the Senate finance committee earlier cleared the senator of any wrongdoing in connection with the C5 road extension project.

?Maybe that is why they keep adding issues and keep changing the charges,? Galang said in a text message when asked by the Philippine Daily Inquirer (parent company of INQUIRER.net) to comment on the statements made on Sunday by Madrigal's lawyer, Ernesto Francisco, that Villar got about P400 million from payment of road right of way and overpriced zonal values.

?As soon as the truth comes out, they go and invent new charges,? Galang said.

?He [Villar]said that there were no anomalous double insertions; there was no road diversion as there were two different projects; all transactions were aboveboard and done in accordance with the law and all properties were bought at zonal values as determined by the Bureau of Internal Revenue,? he said.

?Zonal values are usually below market prices over which the senator has no influence,? Galang said.

Contacted by phone, Gilbert Remulla, spokesperson of Villar's Nacionalista Party, took on Madrigal's lawyer, Ernesto Francisco for what he said were ?preposterous? and ?ridiculous? allegations.

?He is a discredited lawyer and it?s difficult to take him seriously,? Remulla said of Francisco.

He said Francisco, who filed a plunder case against El Shaddai leader Mike Velarde in connection with the C5 road controversy, ?should admit to himself there is no case other than to destroy the good name of the senator in this political demolition job.?

At the presentation he gave, Francisco made it clear that the C5 road controversy was an advocacy he had since 1998, saying the issue at hand was corruption.

?I am doing this pro-bono. I am not compesnated by Senator Madrigal,? Francisco said.