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Wednesday, September 14, 2005
RP to determine nature of 'stolen' FBI data on gov't officials (2:31 p.m.)
MANILA -- The government will find out if the classified information on Filipino officials taken from US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) files that were furnished former National Police deputy director Michael Ray Aquino are detrimental to the administration.
National Bureau of Investigatio (NBI) Director Reynaldo Wycoco said they do not know yet what the confidential records are all about.
Aquino and Filipino-American Leandro Aragoncillo were earlier arrested by FBI agents for "espionage" for allegedly downloading from the FBI files confidential information on Philippine officials.
Aquino then furnished the information to current and former officials of the government, whose identities were still unknown.
The downloading of such information violated US laws.
In reaction to Senator Panfilo Lacson's appeal not to inject politics in Aquino's case, Wycoco said the arrest of Aquino, who is closely identified with Lacson, was purely an FBI operation and there is no politics there.
The NBI and the government had nothing to do with it, he added. (Sunnex) |
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