Trillanes claims Reyes admitted fund diversion
By Angie M. Rosales 02/11/2011Former Armed Forces Chief of Staff Angelo Reyes, who recently took his own life, admitted acting as a conduit in high-level “transactions” involving the diversion of military funds where Reyes claimed not to have benefited from, Sen. Antonio Trillanes IV said yesterday quoting emissaries of Reyes who supposedly approached him.
Trillanes’ revelation came after retired Navy Commodore Rex Robles said former President Arroyo had called up Reyes before the day of his suicide to ask the content of his letter delivered to Trillanes. The senator insinuated the possible involvement of the Executive department, under the previous administration, into the alleged illegal transactions of retired Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) comptroller Gen. Carlos Garcia.
Trillanes, however, appeared to be withholding more information on the letter as he did not categorically point to any particular person at this point, only implying what had been relayed to him, in detail, by a supposed emissary of the late AFP Chief of Staff Angelo “Angie” Reyes.
“Even by the admission of the late general (Reyes) through his emissaries, to me, he admitted that there were transactions supposedly coming from higher ups or authorities that coursed through him but he didn’t have any share. So that’s separate (transactions). There were those ordinary forms of conversion using the military funds as revealed by (former military budget officer) Col. (ret.).... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/headlines/20110211hed2.html
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