Maia Santos Daguito and William So Go INQUIRER FILE PHOTOS/LYN RILLON
Businessman William Go filed two more counts of falsification of documents at the Makati Prosecutor’s Office yesterday against Rizal Commercial Banking Corp. (RCBC) branch manager Maia Santos-Deguito and her deputy, Angela Ruth Torres, in connection with the laundering of $81 million stolen from Bangladesh Bank.
Signature forged
In his complaint affidavit, Go indicated that he discovered his signature was also forged on the “customer relations forms” of the accounts under his name, which he claimed he did not open.
Two weeks ago, Go sued the two RCBC employees for falsifying his signature to open a bank account under his name and withdrawing P20 million from this account at the bank’s Jupiter branch in Makati City. He said that Deguito and Torres committed “simulated forgery” when they faked his signatures on the withdrawal slips and other bank documents. Go sought the help of signature verification services entity Truth Verifier System to prove his claim.
“The forgery simply shows that Mr. Go did not open the peso and dollar accounts with RCBC Jupiter. Since Mr. Go did not own these accounts, he did not and could not possibly have transacted on these accounts, as falsely claimed by Ms Deguito and Ms Torres,” said Go’s lawyer, Ramon Esguerra.
RCBC has also confirmed that it had filed similar charges of falsification of documents against Deguito and Torres in connection with the bank accounts under Go’s name.
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