ABAD ADMITS USING ASSESSED VALUE ON PROPERTIES
Defense: Aquino’s men flout SALn rule
By Benjamin B. Pulta 03/17/2012The counsels fop Chief Justice Renato Corona yesterday alleged members of the Aquino Cabinet regularly flout the law requiring disclosure of assets and liabilities despite the executive department’s insistence of using the same law to persecute the head magistrate.
Noting a recent published report of the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism (PCIJ) uncovering shortcomings in the compliance with the disclosure law by Cabinet officials in filing their statements of assets, liabilities and net worth (SALns), defense spokesman Ramon Esguerra said the report only proves that the Aquino administration is only interested in misusing the law to pin down Corona.
“The malice they are imputing is more imagined than real as the assets were declared in the pertinent SALns of the CJ,” Esguerra told the Tribune in a text message..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/headlines/20120317hea1.html
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