MANILA, Philippines — Senator Manny Pacquiao’s office has sought the assistance of the Philippine National Police (PNP) in identifying those behind a “forged” PDP-Laban memo bearing his falsified signature. Pacquiao’s lawyer Pelagio Lawrence Cuison has written a letter to PNP chief Gen. Guillermo Eleazar through PNP Anti-Cybercrime Group Director Brig. “The forged memo contained an alleged ‘confidential plan’ which showed Pacquiao giving instruction to PDP-Laban legal affairs and arbitration committee chair Alberto Oxales to declare the immediate and automatic expulsion of party vice-chairman Alfonso Cusi and ‘his cohorts’,” Pacquiao’s camp said. “The forged document was pre-dated June 8, 2021, to make it appear that it was made ahead of the real PDP-Laban resolution issued last July 9 which expelled Cusi, Matibag and Naik,” they added. Cuison said the resolution of this issue is urgent especially as the documents have started spreading on various social media platforms.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer August 03, 2021 11:15 UTC