President Rodrigo Duterte admitted to reading out the wrong account number to fool Senator Antonion Trillanes IV.
The President made the admission in his PTV interview with broadcaster Erwin Tulfo on September 19 after Trillanes visited the Singapore bank the president earlier accused him of where he opened one of his foreign bank accounts.
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The bank was said to have denied having any account under the senator’s name or his late father’s.
Duterte said that he changed up the actual number in the documents posted by Uson and Tulfo, which was 11780-00281-60-2. What Trillanes checked out with the DBS Bank in Singapore was what Duterte read out during his September 15 interview, which was 178000296012.
“Wala ito. Produkto ng isip ko ito. Tinanggalan ko talaga. Ginamit mo. Nag-issue ka ng waiver… Iba ang account number, iba ang totoo,” he said.
“Sinadya ko iyan,” Duterte said. “Trillanes, ganito ‘yan: Ang actual account number from Mocha and Erwin is 1178000281602. Binasa ko. Binawasan ko ng number. Wala ito imbento lang.”
“Kita mo siya ngayon. He’s desperate. Pumunta ng Singapore, mag-gastos lang para propaganda lang,” he said.
In response, Trillanes said this recent move from Duterte was in line with the strategy he used in the 2016 campaign.
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“Buti naman umamin siya na sinungaling sya. To begin with, nanalo sya base sa propaganda at kasinungalingan. Sana naman maliwanagan na ang mga kababayan natin na naloko at patuloy na niloloko sila ni Duterte,” Trillanes said.
In his press statement about his trip to Singapore, Trillanes said that he presented the account numbers read out by Duterte and revealed by Uson and Tulfo.
“Naipakita ko dito sa pagpunta ko mismo sa DBS bank Alexandra Branch dito sa Singapore na hindi totoo ang paratang ni Duterte na meron daw akong bank account dito. ‘No such accounts exist’ ang sabi ng bank teller ng ipinakita ko ang aking passport kasama ang dalawang account numbers na galing kina Duterte, Erwin Tulfo at Mocha Uson,” he said.
His statement, however, did not include the account numbers that he had checked out with the DBS bank.
It should be noted, though, that Trillanes signed a bank waiver for the bank account revealed by Uson and Tulfo, which Duterte said was the actual account – 11780-00281-60-2.
Sources: ( gmanetwork.com )
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