AMLC probed CJ’s 2010 records sans court order By Benjamin B. Pulta and Angie M. Rosales 02/21/2012

ANTI-MONEY LAUNDERING COUNCIL LINKED TO CORONA ACCOUNTS LEAKAGE

AMLC probed CJ’s 2010 records sans court order

By Benjamin B. Pulta and Angie M. Rosales 02/21/2012

The Anti-Money Laundering Council (AMLC) may have played a major part in the leakage of the bank records of the Chief Magistrate which may have landed in the hands of the prosecution panel

Several senator-judges ex-pressed alarm and fears over the examination done by the AMLC officer without any court order laying the predicate crime of kidnapping and other crimes under the Anti-Money Laundering law, as the AMLC apparently conducts such examinations on “politically exposed persons” among whom may be senator-judges.

Sen. Joker Arroyo first expressed this fear on the apparent concerted effort to pin down the CJ who may be followed by the next ones who get on the wrong side of Malacañang and have their bank records investigated should they defy an order from Malacañang..... MORE

Source:  The Daily Tribune

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