LAWMEN arrested former Rizal Commercial Banking Corp. branch manager Maia Santos Deguito in connection with the perjury case filed against her.
Senior Supt. Alex Fulgar, deputy chief for administration of the Makati Police, said Deguito’s arrest was made on the basis of a warrant issued by Pasay City Regional Trial Court Judge Eduardo Cruz Solangon Jr. He added Deguito was arrested in a supermarket Wednesday afternoon.
It was learned that the controversial bank manager was taken to the Ospital ng Makati for the routine medical examination before she was detained overnight at the jail of the Makati City Police headquarters.
Fulgar said Deguito will be able to get out of jail temporarily after posting bail.
Businessman William Go tagged Deguito to a multi-billion peso money laundering scheme involving $81 million, which was moved from the account of the Bangladesh Bank at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York to several accounts in the RCBC Jupiter branch.
Deguito allegedly confided to Go that she opened “fictitious” accounts–dollar and peso–at the branch on Feb. 23, 2016. The accounts were made under Go’s brokerage firm Centurytex Trading.
The money laundering case is now being investigated by the Anti-Money Laundering Council and the Senate.