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DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/27 April) – Lawyer Mans Carpio, husband of Vice President Sara Duterte, filed criminal complaints on Monday against members of the House Committee on Justice, including top officials of the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) and the Anti-Money Laundering Council (AMLC), for releasing alleged bank transactions of the couple during a clarificatory hearing on impeachment complaints last April 22.
The complaints were filed by Carpio himself, accompanied by his counsel, lawyer Peter Danao, at the Office of the City Prosecutor in Quezon City.
The respondents included BSP governor Eli M. Remolona Jr, AMLC executive director Ronel U. Buenaventura, and Batangas 2nd District Representative Gerville R. Luistro, who chairs the Committee on Justice, along with Akbayan Partylist Representatives Percival Cendaña and Jose Manuel “Chel” Diokno, and Mamamayang Liberal (ML) Partylist Representative Leila M. De Lima.
The complaints alleged that the release of the bank transactions violated Section 8-A in relation to Section 14 of R.A. 9160 (Anti-Money Laundering Act), Section 2 in relation to Section 5 of R.A. 1405 (Bank Secrecy Law), and Section 32(b) of R.A. 10173 (Data Privacy Act).
Danao argued that AMLC is prohibited from disclosing bank information under any circumstances, including impeachment proceedings. He emphasized that Carpio is a private individual and should not have been involved in the controversy.
The Committee on Justice will resume impeachment proceedings on April 29, during which it may decide whether to unseal the box containing the couple’s income tax returns from the Bureau of Internal Revenue.
Carpio denied having transactions totaling P6,771,222,712 traced to his and his wife’s bank accounts between 2006 and 2025. According to Buenaventura, AMLC documented 630 covered and suspicious transactions linked to the spouses’ accounts, with inflows totaling P4,425,443,794.95 and outflows reaching P1,552,681,310.82. An additional undetermined inflow and outflow of P791,102,607 was also reported. (Antonio L. Colina IV/MindaNews)
