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Court summons bank records of Luy, other ‘pork’ scam whistleblowers

/ 12:12 PM July 23, 2014

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Photo of subpoena for Benhur Luy bank accounts. MARC CAYABYAB/INQUIRER.net

MANILA, Philippines — The Sandiganbayan first division on Wednesday issued subpoenas for the court to access the bank accounts of pork barrel scam whistleblowers led by principal witness Benhur Luy.

This after the alleged scam mastermind Janet Lim-Napoles’ lawyer Stephen David filed a request for the court to issue a subpoena. The request was granted.

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Ordered to appear for the hearing on Thursday to be attended by whistleblowers are representatives from BDO Unibank, Metrobank, Bank of the Philippine Islands (BPI), United Coconut Planters Bank (UCPB), and Land Bank of the Philippines.

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“You are hereby commanded to appear before this court at the Sandiganbayan … to testify in the above-entitled case pending therein and to bring the documents stated in the attached request for issuance of subpoena…” the order read.

According to the request for subpoena, the following whistleblowers have the respective number of bank accounts:

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Benhur Luy – 19 bank accounts (four from BPI, 12 from Metrobank, three from UCPB)

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Arthur Luy – three bank accounts (two from BDO, one from Metrobank)

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Gertudes Luy – two bank accounts (one from Metrobank, one from UCPB)

Merlina Sunas – three bank accounts (two from Metrobank, one from UCPB)

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Marina Sula – three bank accounts (one from Metrobank, two from Land Bank)

David had said they would file a request for subpoena to find out if the bank accounts also contained ill-gotten wealth.

The whistleblowers have pointed to Napoles as the mastermind behind the billion-peso racket of pillaging lawmakers’ public funds to Napoles’ bogus foundations to implement ghost projects and rake in kickbacks.

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