BANCO de Oro (BDO) cleared on Tuesday a former staff of Sen. Leila de Lima of owning a bank account allegedly containing P24 million pesos in drug proceeds. The bank said the account number earlier reported to be under the name of Jonathan Caranto exists. Eirene Jhone E. Aguila that the account number existed, only it was at a different branch and they had no access to it. The bank also told them that the account was under a different name. His lawyer, Aguila, said the account existed under a different name and a different BDO branch.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer September 06, 2016 19:52 UTC