DILG usec, Verzosa linked to jueteng payola
Noy kin to Cruz: Go easy on Puno
By Angie M. Rosales
09/22/2010
Presidential cousin, Antonio “Tonyboy” Cojuangco, tried to intercede on behalf of Interior Undersecretary Rico Puno, retired Archbishop Oscar Cruz yesterday informed Senate investigators in an open hearing on the illegal numbers game payoffs to government officials.
Cruz, testifying before the Senate, recounted the meeting he had with Cojuangco where he (Cruz) was allegedly told to “go easy” on Puno whom he finally named as one of the two high officials he had earlier exposed to be on take of jueteng payola.
The other was retired Philippine National Police (PNP) Chief Jesus Verzosa, as indicated in the list submitted by the bishop before the joint probe by the blue ribbon and local governments, as the “ultimate recipients” of the cash flow of the illegal numbers game operations in the national level, with a certain Gen. (ret.) Rey Cachuela as “intermediate recipient” and one Eddie Fontanilla as “collector on the ground.”
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/headlines/20100922hed1.html
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