The Comelec chief has been merely issuing blanket denials of his wife’s allegations, claiming that the deposits were closed or were not his. In his attempt to impress his interviewers, Martin thrice described his auditors as “forensic accountants”. Martin said he had remitted to his brother’s accounts a total of $1.7 million from 1993 to 2000. However, in the chat, Martin described a cash-for-service clinic he had set up in 1998 that serviced a factory manned mostly by Hispanics, the costs for setting up of which he recovered in 2001. Martin also says he is so rich he hasn’t even been tracking how much he has in his brother’s bank.

Source: Manila Times August 17, 2017 16:41 UTC