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A PARTY-LIST lawmaker on Monday welcomed the Commission on Elections chairman George Erwin Garcia’s commitment to cooperate in the upcoming House of Representatives probe of the mysterious million-dollar offshore bank accounts that appear to be connected to the poll body’s P18-billion deal with South Korean firm Miru Systems Co. Ltd. for the 2025 midterm elections.
Last week, Marcoleta disclosed that a top Comelec official recently opened offshore bank accounts which, based on reliable pieces of evidence and documents, received up to P120 million from the controversial South Korean firm Miru. He did not identify the top poll official involved. “Why would anyone even attempt to demolish a constitutional body?” Marcoleta asked, responding to Garcia’s remarks.
Marcoleta noted that issuing such a waiver of secrecy of bank deposits to domestic law enforcement and investigative agencies — such the Anti-Money Laundering Council , the National Bureau of Investigation and the Office of the Ombudsman, among others — even if mandated by the Constitution and Philippine laws, neither empowers such agencies, nor produces any legal effect in foreign jurisdictions.
“Thus, if Chairman Garcia is willing to cooperate, the rest of the Comelec’s commissioners should also be encouraged to come forward to prove their own — and ultimately the entire poll body’s innocence”, Marcoleta stated.
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