Umano’y bank statements hinggil sa umano’y anomalya sa kontrata ng Comelec at Miru, isinumite ni dating Rep. Erice sa Comelec
Umano’y bank statements hinggil sa umano’y anomalya sa kontrata ng Comelec at Miru, isinumite ni dating Rep. Erice sa Comelec;
Comelec Chair Garcia, iginiit na buong Comelec en banc ang bubusisi sa mga dokumento
Comelec Chair Garcia, iginiit na buong Comelec en banc ang bubusisi sa mga dokumento
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00:00Meanwhile, the Commission on Elections promised that they will investigate the document shown by former congressman Eguy Erice
00:09in regards to the millions of dollars received by a COMELEC official from the MIRU system.
00:17Louisa Erispe, for Setlo na Balita, live.
00:21Angelique, the Commission on Elections has raised a new issue today regarding their contract for automated counting machines in the 2025 elections.
00:33But now, here in the office of COMELEC, the allegations went straight.
00:39Past 8 in the morning, outside the COMELEC office, former congressman Eguy Erice arrived
00:47not to file a petition, but to submit to the office of COMELEC Chairman George Erwin Garcia
00:53the non-compliance bank statements as proof of anomalies in the contract between COMELEC and MIRU.
01:00In the cover letter of the documents he submitted, he asked Chairman Garcia to investigate it
01:06because it contains transactions between an official of COMELEC and MIRU.
01:12I submitted that document to Chairman Garcia. He should investigate it because it's scary if an official of COMELEC receives a bribe.
01:24Erice did not mention who gave him those documents.
01:29He also did not clarify who the official of COMELEC is and what it is about.
01:33But he said that this official has 14 foreign bank accounts and has four properties,
01:40one in Singapore, Hong Kong, US, and Makati.
01:43Among the other bank accounts, his co-depositor, the wife of the official of COMELEC, appears.
01:50This is what I received from Bahamas Files.
01:53It says that an official of COMELEC received a million dollars from South Korea, allegedly from MIRU.
02:07Erice is not sure if these are the same accounts that were leaked by the gift party's representative Rodante Marculeta.
02:16But he's ready to fight against the documents and investigate it even if it's President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr.
02:22I will bring the copy to the Senate. I will also bring it to the Congress.
02:27I will bring it to the Office of the President.
02:31But all these allegations were answered by COMELEC.
02:34Garcia said that whatever documents were given by Erice, he will not be the only one to blame, but the entire COMELEC en banc will be blamed.
02:41Let's first look at those documents.
02:44You know, it's the en banc. We are not studying the actions and moves that we will take.
02:49But whatever it is, I will bring it to the Commission en banc.
02:53Although Erice did not directly say that Garcia is the one he's referring to in the 14 bank accounts,
02:59like the allegations of Marculeta, he admitted his responsibility.
03:03When it's addressed to all, it's so unfair because it's the entire institution.
03:08And in my opinion, if that's the case, the blame will be placed on the entire Commission.
03:13But I don't want to give a final conclusion.
03:15Garcia hopes that the investigation of the National Bureau of Investigation and Anti-Money Laundering Council will speed up,
03:23including the bank accounts that are being leaked to the public.
03:26Because he believes that this is the way to clarify all the allegations.
03:31We will follow-up right away because I really want the NBI and the AMLOC to help us to speed up the process.
03:39Because the faster it is, the more we will know the truth.
03:46Earlier, we were able to interview the COMELEC Chairman George Erwin Garcia.
03:51He showed us the copy of the first 49 bank accounts that were leaked by Representative Marculeta.
04:01Here, we saw that the font size of the bank statements is the same.
04:07And that's one of the questions that Garcia is asking.
04:11If those are different banks, the font size or font style of the bank statements should be different.
04:18And here, he compared the documents that were given to him by former Congressman Erice.
04:26And he compared the white paper from the copy of the 49 bank accounts.
04:33And he saw that they are the same.
04:35The only difference is that there are seven additional local bank accounts.
04:39And now, he is asking the local bank accounts to verify if this is his real name.
04:46Or if this is really a bank account under his name.
04:50So that if it's not, he is ready to file a case of falsifying documents.
04:56If this can be proven that this is not his real name.
04:58And he's not just using his real name.
05:02Okay. Thank you very much, Louisa Erice Perez.