The United States, through its ambassador Philip Goldberg, turned over to the Philippine Ombudsman the amount of US$1.38 million (P61 million) representing proceeds from the sale of assets forfeited from a retired military comptroller.
“The funds are criminal proceeds that were seized and forfeited in the United States from family members of Major General Carlos Garcia, who was convicted of indirect bribery and the facilitating of money laundering by the Ombudsman’s Office in 2010,” Goldberg said. The assets constitute two accounts of Citibank in New York and Garcia’s unit at the posh Trump Tower in Manhattan, also in New York.
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