AMLC stopped filing raps on PNP claim Luzon ‘jueteng-free’
By Angie M. Rosales 10/01/2010Prime government agencies that would have been instrumental in halting the growth of local jueteng operations looked the other way when implied pressures were applied on them, including a mere incredulous statement from the Philippine National Police (PNP) that Luzon is jueteng-free during the term of President Arroyo.
Government officials yesterday admitted before Senate probers to have been stumped in going after jueteng operators or even in curbing, at the very least, the illegal numbers game despite the on and off drum beating of a resolute campaign to end the illegal numbers racket that continues until this day.
Officials of the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) and the Anti-Money Laundering Council (AMLC) cited legal setbacks in going after jueteng operators and in freezing their bank accounts.
At one point, an AMLC official said the agency was in the process of readying charges and was about to file cases during the height of jueteng investigation in 2005 in which some members of the then First Family of President Arroyo were implicated in alleged multi-million payoffs but was held back by the government’s declaration on being “jueteng-free” country..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
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