Testify on AFP graft, junior officers asked By Mario J. Mallari and Angie M. Rosales 01/22/2011

RETIRED OFFICER GUNNING AFTER ANGIE REYES’ ALLEGED CORRUPTION

Testify on AFP graft, junior officers asked

By Mario J. Mallari and Angie M. Rosales 01/22/2011
Lower ranking military officers are being asked to come forward and testify before the Senate panel scheduled to probe the plunder case against retired Maj. Gen. Carlos Garcia, the then military comptroller, along with the plea bargain agreement that was forged between the Omudsman’s prosecutors and Garcia.

Former Constabulary chief retired Maj. Gen. Ramon Montaño yesterday called on the junior officers of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP), who have knowledge of the alleged massive corruption during the time of former Defense Secretary Angelo Reyes, to come out and testify in the investigation.

At the same time, Montaño urged the present AFP leadership to cooperate in the investigation against Reyes and at least five AFP chiefs of staff who served during Reyes’ stint as defense secretary from 2001 to 2003 in connection with the plunder case against former AFP comptroller.

“We are exhorting and pleading the low-ranking officers and civilian employees in the accounting and auditing offices of the AFP units involved to come out and testify against their senior officers who are the key players in this grand conspiracy of conversion of funds which reached gargantuan figures during the Arroyo regime,” Montaño said ..... MORE

Source:  The Daily Tribune

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