AMLC asked: Probe Binay dollars accounts in 1990s

Look into the dollar bank transactions of Vice President Jejomar Binay in the 1990s as well. This was the recommendation of former Makati vice mayor Ernesto Mercado to the Anti-Money Laundering Council during Thursday’s Senate hearing on corruption allegations against Binay. In his presentation, Mercado, an ally-turned-critic of Binay, again showed documents that indicated Binay had at least 7 foreign accounts. Mercado refuted Binay’s claims that only 5 of the 242 bank accounts frozen by the Court of Appeals were his. He added that the AMLC should look into Binay’s dollar accounts owned from 1994 to 1998 when he was Makati mayor.

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