Makati Mayor Jejomar Erwin Binay Jr, son of the Philippine vice president, was arrested by the Senate sergeant-at-arms Thursday morning, after he and 5 others failed to attend 3 Senate hearings on alleged anomalous contracts in his city. The chamber’s blue ribbon subcommittee was conducting a hearing on organizations headed by Vice President Jejomar Binay when the younger Binay was arrested. The mayor earlier denounced the selective and inordinate aggressiveness of the subcommittee toward Makati contract while it turns a blind eye to anomalies discovered by state auditors in the neighboring city of Taguig, which is ruled by the family of Senator Alan Peter Cayetano, one of those leading the probe against the Binays. On Thursday afternoon, the mayor’s mother was set to be arraigned before the anti-graft court Sandiganbayan over alleged anomalous contracts in her time as mayor.
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