Thursday, October 23, 2008
Santiago: Laundering could be the case in Moscow mess (1 p.m.)
SENATOR Miriam Defensor Santiago said there is a basis that the 105,000 euro brought by Philippine National Police (PNP) comptroller Eliseo de la Paz to Moscow, Russia could be for the purposes of money laundering.
This was disclosed during the Senate investigation on Thursday into the PNP contingency fund.
Since de la Paz was reportedly intending to proceed to Warsaw, Poland, and since Warsaw is near Switzerland, it could be possible that de la Paz was intending to go there to launder the money.
Diwa Gunigundo, deputy governor of the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas however said the crime of money laundering is indicative of a predicate crime, such as illegal gambling. |
