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It’s final: We shall all be informed about detained Senator Jinggoy Estrada’s bank accounts.
“The Sandiganbayan 5th Division recently junked with finality the bid of Senator Jinggoy Estrada to stop the Anti-Money Laundering Council (AMLC) from reporting the details of how he allegedly obtained kickbacks from the pork barrel,” reports Jester P. Manalastas on Journal Online.
The senator — who denied getting millions in kickbacks — had tried to stop the AMLC representatives from testifying before the court by filing motion for reconsideration.
The report noted: “Based on the AMLC report, which was already disclosed in public, Estrada’s alleged conduits Francis Yenko and Juan Ng received the kickbacks in his behalf from Janet Lim-Napoles.”
In its 18-page ruling, the anti-graft court decided to allow AMLC bank investigator Atty. Orlando Negrades Jr. to testify and acknowledge the AMLC Inquiry report.
The said ruling had stated, “As a public officer and being the accused in this case for plunder, accused Estrada no longer enjoys absolute control over his privacy, especially over matters of relevance to the charges against him.”
The report then recalled: “Estrada was charged with plunder and graft cases over his involvement in the pork barrel fund scam from which he allegedly earned PHP183 million commission from 2004 to 2010. He is currently detained at the Philippine National Police (PNP) custodial center in Quezon City.”
Photo: Rey Javelosa, Senate Public Relations and Information Bureau (PRIB)
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