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<span style="color: magenta; font-family: inherit;">Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre II says also under investigation are several corporations, where some of the stockholders reportedly have connections to drug lords</span></h2>
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Also being investigated are several corporations, where some of the stockholders reportedly have connections to drug lords.<br />
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Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre II told reporters on Friday, September 23, that the NBI had received from the Anti-Money Laundering Council (AMLC) the bank records that the bureau requested.<br />
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Aguirre met with AMLC officials on Thursday.<br />
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He refused to name De Lima’s friends whose bank transactions are being investigated.<br />
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“I’m not at liberty to say something about that because that is confidential. Under the AMLC rules, the report provided to us is just to help up dig deeper for evidence, and we can only reveal this if there is already a case filed in court,” the justice secretary said.<br />
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Still, he said, the Department of Justice (DOJ) has sufficient evidence to file a case against the lady senator.<br />
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The DOJ has accused De Lima of tolerating drug trading inside the New Bilibid Prison when she was justice secretary, because the drug lords allegedly delivered bribe money to her through her reported driver-boyfriend Ronnie Dayan.<br />
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Convicts who testified in the congressional hearing on the proliferation of drugs in the national penitentiary claimed the bribe money they paid was for De Lima’s 2016 senatorial campaign.<br />
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De Lima has denied all the allegations made by the DOJ chief and the witnesses.<br />
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The first time Aguirre made the allegations on Thursday that she had millions, even billions, of pesos in her bank accounts, De Lima said: “Secretary Aquirre and his operators are a mafia of lies and intrigues, who go to bed with criminal convicts just to get their perjured testimonies.” <br />
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<b><i><span style="color: magenta; font-family: inherit;">Sen. Cayetano questions the claims made by Edgar Matobato, the supposed Davao Death Squad member who testified in the Senate probe on extrajudicial killings. Sen. De Lima later walks out of the room as Sen. Cayetano is speaking.</span></i></b></h2>
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Chief Legal Counsel Salvador Panelo said in an interview with reporters on Friday, September 16, that the President has apparently taken a stance of silence as the testimony of Edgar Matobato before the Senate committee on justice and human rights the day before is "full of lies."</div>
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Asked what the President had said about the allegations that he had ordered killings in Davao City when he was mayor, Panelo said, <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">“E nakita mo, hindi nga pinapansin. Kasi alam mo kaming mga abogado, kung walang kakuwenta-kuwenta ‘yan, hindi talaga namin papansinin.”</em></div>
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(As you can seen, he’s ignoring it. You know, we, lawyers, would really ignore something that is really worthless.)</div>
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When asked, Panelo said no one has to advise the President not to dignify the Matobato’s allegations. “You don’t even have to advise this President. He’s such a smart, intelligent thinking lawyer, the President,” Panelo said.</div>
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The Palace official, however, did not directly respond to questions on whether Duterte knew about Matobato’s testimony, which detailed the alleged operations of the Davao Death Squad under Duterte when he was Davao City mayor.</div>
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Matobato had claimed that the group killed about 1,000 people from 1988 to 2013, mostly suspected criminals, upon orders of Duterte.</div>
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<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">“E unang-una nga, ke alam mo o hindi, kung kasinungalingan naman bakit mo pa papansinin? Tandaan niyo, during the campaign lahat na itinapon sa kanya and yet despite that he won overwhelmingly; landslide. And upon assumption of office he got 91% [trust] rating. Makikita natin na ang mga tao e di naniniwala sa lahat ng mga kasinungalingan na itinatapon kay Presidente Duterte</em>,” he said.</div>
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(First of all, whether you know about it or not, if it’s all lies, why even bother? Remember, during the campaign, everything was hurled against him and yet despite that, he won overwhelmingly; landslide. And upon assumption of office he got 91% [trust] rating. We can see that the people do not believe all these lies against President Duterte.)</div>
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Like Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre II, Panelo alleged that Matobato was a “perjured witness.” He cited the opinion of several senators that the self-confessed former hitman lied in his Senate testimony.</div>
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To Senator Leila de Lima, who insists that Matobato is a “credible witness,” Panelo said, “Do your homework.”</div>
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<b><i>INHIBIT. Senator Alan Peter Cayetano wants Senator Leila De Lima to inhibit from her own probe into the extrajudicial killings but the neophyte lawmaker refuses to do so. Photos by LeAnne Jazul/Rappler</i></b></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5;">MANILA, Philippines – Senator Alan Peter Cayetano, President Rodrigo Duterte’s staunchest ally in the Senate, comes to the rescue again, as he asked Senator Leila De Lima to inhibit from her own probe into extrajudicial killings under the Duterte administration.</span></div>
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<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">“</em>I am thinking of drafting a letter asking Senator De Lima to inhibit herself from the hearing<em style="box-sizing: border-box;"> kasi may prejudgment na siya </em>(because she already has prejudgment).<em style="box-sizing: border-box;"> Makikita mo sa kanya lahat ng pinatay summary killing na o extrajudicial killing na </em>(You will see that all those killed are already summary killings or extrajudicial killings),” Cayetano said on Wednesday, August 24, adding he would send the letter not later than Monday,</div>
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Cayetano called out De Lima for being “biased” in her conduct of the Senate inquiry.</div>
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<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Ang question ko nga 24 senators tayo, why not allow someone who is less polluted, less biased to do the investigation? Ang sinasabi ko naman hindi dapat ang chairman biased,”</em> he told reporters.</div>
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(My question is: We are 24 senators why not allow someone who is less polluted, less biased to do the investigation? What I'm saying is the chairman should not be biased.)</div>
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De Lima is the chairperson of the Senate committee on justice and human rights, which is leading the investigation into the spate of drug-related killings in the country. She also filed the resolution that prompted the inquiry.</div>
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“You can inhibit anytime, I just want to bring it to her attention that she has two options – <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">maging fair sa hearing or mag-inhibit </em>(be fair in the hearings or inhibit)<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">,</em>” he said.</div>
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Cayetano also accused De Lima and Commission on Human Rights Chairman Jose Luis Martin Gascon of “destroying” the country’s image in the international community, with their loose usage of the term "extrajudicial killings." </div>
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<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Imbis na tumutulong si Senator De Lima at Chairman Gascon sa image ng bansa, sila ang sumisira sa image ng ating bansa. Kasama sa paglilinis ng pulis ng ating Pangulo ang ikulong ang pulis na 'di sumusunod sa batas,”</em> he claimed.</div>
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(Instead of Senator De Lima and Chairman Gascon helping the country's image, they are destroying it. The President's cleansing of the police ranks include jailing those who violate the law.)</div>
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Cayetano said De Lima and Gascon are making it appear that the deaths are “state-sponsored” – which he strongly denied.</div>
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“It’s different between naming it a murder/homicide from naming it summary killing and extrajudicial killing. What's the difference? The difference is, <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">abroad 'di ba sini-stir up 'yung community to make it appear that guilty of international crime ang Pangulo</em> (The difference is the international community is being stirred up to make it appear that the President is guilty of an international crime),” he added.</div>
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Duterte, as early as the 2016 campaign period, said his anti-drug campaign would be “bloody.”</div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; font-weight: 700; margin-top: 50px;">De Lima: 'Why should I?'</span></div>
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De Lima, however, remained unfazed and said she’d rather that the people judge her objectivity in the conduct of the hearing.</div>
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“Why should I? I’m not going to base that on the opinion of someone who has evidently been the defender and the apologist of the President in the Senate,” De Lima told reporters.</div>
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She denied being biased, as she maintained the Senate probe is not a legal court but only a fact-finding investigation.</div>
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“This is not a court of law. This is a fact-finding inquiry. So what bias is he talking about? I'm just trying to determine facts through witnesses," she said.</div>
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De Lima said between the two of them, the one who is clearly biased is Cayetano.</div>
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<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Sino ba biased sa amin? Siya nga very biased in favor of the administration and extrajudicial killings from day one of the hearing. And besides, klarado naman 'yan. He's a lawyer. He knows that, that inhibition is addressed to the personal discretion of the person being sought to inhibit,” </em>she said.</div>
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(Who's biased between the two of us? He's the one very biased in favor of the administration and extrajudicial killings from day one of the hearing. Besides, it's clear. He's a lawyer. He knows that, that inhibition is addressed to the personal discretion of the person being sought to inhibit.)</div>
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