De Lima faces yet another disbarment case, given 10 days to comment

The Supreme Court (SC) on Tuesday directed Senator Leila De Lima to respond to a  disbarment complaint filed by lawyer Fernando Perito.

De Lima was given 10 days to file her comment to the complaint, the details of which were not made public as disbarment cases were inherently confidential.

The senator is already facing disbarment complaints in connection with her romantic affair with Ronnie Dayan, a married man who once served as her driver and bodyguard, and her defiance of the SC order allowing former President and now Pampanga Rep. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo to seek medical treatment abroad in November 2011.

It was Perito who also charged De Lima, along with former President Benigno Aquino III and former Interior Secretary Manuel "Mar" Roxas II, with graft and plunder before the Office of the Ombudsman for supposedly transferring billions of dollars worth of gold reserves to a company based in Thailand.

The complaints, however, was based on a spurious Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas circular. —NB, GMA News