'Davao Breaking News' FB page insists Trillanes accounts it posted were authentic

The person behind the "Davao Breaking News" Facebook page maintained that the bank accounts they said belonged to Senator Antonio Trillanes IV were "verified true and authentic."

"Whatever documents we posted in our website were verified true and authentic," Ben Tesiorna said in a report on "24 Oras" on Thursday.

Tesiorna's pronouncement comes after Trillanes announced on Monday that he planned to file libel cases against Tesiorna, Communications Assistant Secretary Mocha Uson and journalist Erwin Tulfo for propagating "fake news."

Trillanes said Uson and Tulfo shared the documents from Tesiorna's site on their pages.

But Tesiorna claimed that the accounts he posted on his page were different from the ones for which Trillanes issued bank secrecy waivers for the Ombudsman and the Anti-Money Laundering Council (AMLC), covering all of his alleged off-shore accounts.

"What Sen. Trillanes presented during his press conference were not the ones we posted in our website. Those were already taken out by Facebook for having violated their so-called standards," Tesiorna said.

"Now as to (whether) he really owns the accounts or not, that remains to be determined. But the fact remains that there are bank accounts to prove their contention," Tesiorna added.

The AMLC has received the waivers for the 12 accounts from Trillanes.

President Rodrigo Duterte last week said he had information about Trillanes' supposed offshore accounts.

After signing his waivers, Trillanes dared Duterte and his son Davao City Vice Mayor Paolo Duterte to sign similar waivers. Trillanes has accused both Duterte men of having secret wealth. —Margaret Claire Layug/JST, GMA News