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By Prince Golez, Manila Reporter
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Saturday, February 18, 2017
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MANILA – Sen. Antonio “Sonny” Trillanes IV is urging the Office of the Ombudsman to immediately resolve the plunder complaint that he filed against President Rodrigo Duterte, involving the latter’s alleged undeclared assets worth billions of pesos.
Close to a year after Duterte won the presidential elections in May 2016, Trillanes last Thursday, on live television, accused the chief executive of having bank transactions amounting to P2.4 billion.
“Para sa kaalaman ng lahat, nag-file na ako ng plunder case against Pres. Duterte ‘nung May 2016 pa at ginamit kong ebidensya ang mga hawak kong mga dokumento ukol sa questionable bank transactions niya,” the senator on Friday said.
“Kaya nananawagan ako sa Ombdudsman na paspasan na ang imestigasyon tungkol dito,” he added.
Trillanes criticized the President for deviating from the issue. He said he would not address Duterte’s “insults” against him.
“President Duterte, marami ka pang sinasabi, kung talagang wala kang itinatagong nakaw na yaman, tanggapin mo na ang hamon ko at buksan mo na ang transaction history ng bank accounts mo at kung mali ako, magre-resign agad ako bilang Senador,” the former Navy official said.
During a speech in Panacan, Davao City on Feb. 16, Duterte challenged the senator to prove his “old” and “rehashed” allegation.
He would also resign if proven he has a P2 billion or even just half a billion undeclared funds, the President said.
“This is amusing how Trillanes came up with his accounting. He even included a day to day banking transactions of my partner Honeylet. This just shows his ignorance with regards to the regular banking business. The people who have personal businesses,” Duterte said.
Duterte explained that his daughter Sara, now mayor of Davao City, earns from her law profession and “not from illegal retainers which Trillanes is so used to so doing.”
He also came to his common-law wife’s defense, saying that she has a doughnut business and supplies meat to five malls in Davao.
“Matiyaga, hindi kagaya mo ambisyoso. May mutiny-mutiny ka pa, wala ka naman pa lang bayag, tapos taas kaagad ang kamay pagdating ng pulis. Nakakahiya ka sa totoo lang. Kung pamilya mo gutom noon o ngayon, ‘wag mo kaming isali. Hindi kami kasing malas sa pamilya mo. Hindi kami mahirap rin. Tatay ko governor noon, may iniwan sa amin. Ikaw anong naiwan sa iyo? Hangin, pati yabang. Tulisan ka sa totoo lang,” Duterte said./PN
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