Ilocos Norte Representative Rodolfo C. Farinas insisted that there was no falsification when they submitted the allegedly fake bank documents in the name of Chief Justice Renato Corona as basis for the issuance of subpoenas.
Quezon Representative Lorenzo Tanada said there was no bad faith on the part of the prosecution when they submitted the photocopy of bank accounts allegedly in the name of Chief Justice Renato Corona to the impeachment court as basis for their request to issue subpoenas.
Chief Justice Renato Corona has close to P20 million in deposit as of 2010 in at least two accounts at the Philippine Savings Bank branch in Katipunan, Quezon City, a bank official revealed during the impeachment trial on Wednesday.
Five bank accounts in the name of Chief Justice Renato Corona were produced by a witness before the Senate, sitting as an impeachment court, on Wednesday.
A representative of the Philippine Savings Bank has been allowed to testify at the impeachment trial of Chief Justice Renato Corona despite pending petitions filed against it before the Supreme Court.
PS Bank has asked the Supreme Court to stop the Senate, acting as impeachment court, from issuing subpoenas to bank records of Chief Justice Renato Corona.
Ilocos Norte Representative Rodolfo Farinas’ statement that the impeachment complaint filed by the prosecution against Chief Justice Renato Corona was “poorly crafted” was a good observation on the inadequacy of the evidence against Corona, a spokesman for the defense said Tuesday.
