Overall Deputy Ombudsman Arthur Carandang has remained tight-lipped on the legality of President Duterte’s bank documents supposedly held by graft investigators. When asked by reporters about Mr. Duterte’s statements in October, Carandang simply replied: “No comment.”Ombudsman Conchita Carpio Morales had also declined to comment on the matter. ADVERTISEMENTCarandang is spearheading the investigation into Mr. Duterte’s alleged ill-gotten wealth after Morales inhibited from the proceedings since she is the aunt of the President’s son-in-law, lawyer Manases Carpio. Mr. Duterte said the Ombudsman should had secured first a court order to make its possession of his bank transaction documents legal. Then, on Oct. 4, Mr. Duterte claimed that his alleged bank records came from “a certain Abad who is [the] mistress” of his nemesis, Sen. Antonio Trillanes IV.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer November 27, 2017 23:03 UTC