Senator Antonio “Sonny” Trillanes IV on Tuesday wrote the Anti-Money Laundering Council (AMLC), requesting for a list of all “flagged/reported bank transactions” of President Rodrigo Duterte from 2006 onwards. The request was contained in the senator’s one-page letter to the AMLC. Trillanes, in a separate statement, reiterated his belief that Duterte’s order to the AMLC to release his bank transactions was just a “political bluff.”“I believe that President Duterte’s public announcement to release his bank transactions is just a political bluff because simply writing a waiver addressed to the bank would have been much simpler. Nonetheless, I am calling his bluff and I have written to AMLC to publicly release said information,” he said. If the AMLC could not release the President’s bank transactions, then the senator said this would be another proof that “he is again fooling the Filipino people.”Last week, Trillanes revived his allegation that the President had P2.2 billion bank deposits from 2006 to 2015.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer February 21, 2017 07:10 UTC