Senate forces ‘truth’ from LTA staff; cites contempt By Angie M. Rosales 08/23/2011

MOVES TO ARREST AND DETAIN DEL ROSARIO

Senate forces ‘truth’ from LTA staff; cites contempt

By Angie M. Rosales 08/23/2011

In a bid to force its invited “resource persons” to state that it is former First Gentleman (FFG) Jose Miguel “Mike” Arroyo who is the real owner of four helicopters, two of which were sold as brand new to the Philippine National Police (PNP), senators yesterday moved to cite in contempt, ordered the arrest and indefinite detention of LTA Inc., former bookeeper Rowena del Rosario even before the hearing ended “until she purges herself of the contempt citation,” and presumably, to force her to give the senators the answers they want to substantiate their allegations against the Arroyos.

Charges that FFG owned the helicopters and not leased them were revived by bringing up the old charges of Arroyo being the real “Jose Pidal” with brother Rep. Ignacio “Iggy” Arroyo taking the fall for his brother, with the presentation of former police Chief Supt. Restituto Mosqueda, who claimed that Mike Arroyo is the real owner of the multimillion-peso “Jose Pidal” account.

Mosqueda, who eight years ago, first appeared in the Senate in 2003 as PNP crime laboratory director claiming that Iggy’s signature matched that of bank documents pertaining to the Pidal account, now claims that which they examined was a specimen produced by Iggy at that time..... MORE

Source:  The Daily Tribune

URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/headlines/20110823hed1.html