Vice President Jejomar C. Binay, whose bank accounts were questioned and put on freeze by the Anti-Money Laundering Council (AMLC), is asking why it has not investigated the bank accounts of the Liberal Party’s high-ranking members and officials linked to certain scams.
Binay posed the question as he lamented the “unfair treatment” of the AMLC, which he said, is being used for oppression.
“Yun bang sina (Budget Secretary) Butch Abad; sina (Senate President Franklin) Drilon, in-AMLC ba nila ‘yon? (How about the accounts of Budget Secretary Butch Abad and Senate President Franklin Drilon, were there AMLC reports)?” asked Binay, in an interview in Cebu Saturday evening.
Abad has been tagged as the alleged “brains” of the Disbursement Acceleration Program (DAP), certain provisions of which have been ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court (SC).
Drilon, on the other hand, had been linked to alleged anomalies in the construction of the Iloilo Convention Center.
Binay said the funds in his bank accounts frozen by AMLC were hard-earned money by him and his wife, an obstetrician.
MANILA BULLETIN
