Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile on Tuesday warned about the larger implications of the claim that the Anti-Money Laundering Council (AMLC) or the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) could have leaked Chief Justice Renato Corona’s bank records.
Enrile agreed with Senator Joker Arroyo who expressed alarm at the impeachment trial on Monday over the possibility of Malacañang using the AMLC to blackmail its enemies.
“Yes, because the (AMLC) is not supposed to examine any account without going to court,” Enrile said in Filipino, noting that the bill seeking to amend the Anti-Money Laundering Law “will be examined very thoroughly.”
Enrile added: “If that’s true, then they’re not respecting the law anymore. They’re not following the law, which they’re supposed to obey and implement. The executive department is the implementing body.”
The AMLC, tasked with investigating money laundering offenses, is composed of the BSP governor as chair, and the insurance commissioner and the Securities and Exchange Commission chair as members.
The BSP on Monday said its examiners did not access any records of the deposit accounts of Corona.
The AMLC on Tuesday said it could not have been the one that leaked his signature cards or his other deposit account records because it had not received copies of or any documents related to the deposit accounts of Corona.
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