President Rodrigo Duterte on Saturday night accused Deputy Ombudsman Melchor Arthur Carandang of “lying to his teeth” and “waving fabricated evidence.”
President Duterte made the accusation after the Anti-Money Laundering Council itself denied it had provided the Ombudsman with a report on the Duterte family’s bank transactions, as claimed by Carandang.
Carandang said in an interview that the report was used as a basis to launch a probe on the President’s family wealth.
“Waving fabricated evidence, lying to his teeth in front of the nation and then you want me to submit to the jurisdiction of the Ombudsman,” Duterte said of Carandang in a speech before local lawyers.
The AMLC has also already denied that the attachments to the complaint of Senator Antonio Trillanes IV—which was used as a basis for the probe against Duterte’s family—came from them.
It added the money Trillanes said Duterte had was “misleading” and “erroneous,” noting that the figure was arrived at by adding outflows and inflows.
On Saturday, the President added his family had properties and businesses including an ice plant and lumberyard, adding his late father was a provincial governor.
“All in all it would not go beyond 40 million (pesos or $785,000), my lifetime savings. A part of that was my hereditary — you people from Davao know this — property,” Duterte said. Agence France Presse