Senate to tap NBI to pin down source of bank leak By Angie M. Rosales 03/09/2012

Senate to tap NBI to pin down source of bank leak

By Angie M. Rosales 03/09/2012

The Senate plans to seek the National Bureau of Investigation’s (NBI) help on the Senate’s ongoing probe into the alleged “leakage” of bank records of Supreme Court Chief Justice Renato Corona to clearly establish the culprit.

“I would like to invite the NBI to come in and investigate this because that’s not within the capacity of the Senate to determine, not even the committee (investigating this). We don’t have the facilities, the expertise, the manpower to look into this fully, although the NBI does. So let’s use the NBI,” Sen. Sergio Osmeña III told reporters in an interview yesterday.

Osmeña, chairman of the Senate banks, financial institutions and currencies tasked to investigate separate from the impeachment trial proceedings the circumstances as to how Corona’s records of his accounts in Philippine Savings Bank (PSBank) said this is the recommendation that he intends to present to panel members when he calls for a meeting soon..... MORE

Source:  The Daily Tribune

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