Trillanes asks AMLC to release Duterte’s bank records

Senator Antonio Trillanes IV on Tuesday formally requested the Anti-Money Laundering Council (AMLC) to provide a list of all flagged or reported bank transactions of President Rodrigo Duterte from 2006 onwards.

This after the President announced that he had already instructed the agency to release his bank transactions, which Trillanes called a “political bluff.”

“In view of the statements of President Rodrigo Roa Duterte publicly announcing that he has directed the Anti-Money Laundering Council to open to the public his bank transactions, I am hereby requesting for a list of all the flagged/reported transactions under his name starting from 2006 and onwards, during which time he was serving as a public official,” Trillanes said in his letter.

The letter was addressed to Amado Tentangco Jr., governor of Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas and chairman of AMLC.

Trillanes was referring to Duterte’s speech last Friday in Baguio City before the Philippine Military Academy Class of 1967.

“I’ve ordered AMLC and everybody to give information sa ano ang what’s my worth in this, in terms of pesos in this planet,” Duterte said in the said speech.

In a news release, Trillanes said Duterte could have just simply written a waiver addressed to bank instead of public announcing his directive to release his bank transactions.

“I believe that President Duterte’s public announcement to release his bank transactions is just a political bluff because simply writing a waiver addressed to the bank would have been much simpler,” the senator said.

“Nonetheless, I am calling his bluff and I have written to AMLC to publicly release said information,” he added.

Trillanes, in his letter, said Duterte’s public statement and categorical claim to release his bank transactions is enough for AMLC to grant his request, even without the President’s written request.

“If the AMLC could not release the President’s bank transactions, then this is another proof that he is again fooling the Filipino people,” he said.

On Thursday last week, Trillanes challenged Duterte anew to release his bank records, citing he has documents proving his claim that the President has more than P2 billion in his bank accounts.

Trillanes also claimed Duterte's children, Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte, Davao City Vice Mayor Paolo Duterte, and Sebastian, as well as his common-in-law wife Honeylet Avencena, have millions in their bank accounts. —Erwin Colcol/JST/KG, GMA News