THE Department of Justice will investigate the possible criminal liability of members of the Anti-Money Laundering Council for obstruction of justice.
Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre II said AMLC has been stonewalling for 22 months on the request of the National Bureau of Investigation to look into bank accounts and paper trail of transactions from inside the New Bilibid Prison.
Aguirre lamented that after the December 2014 raid at NßBP by the NBI and then secretary of Justice, now Senator Leila De Lima, the NBI already made the request for assistance.
President Rodrigo Duterte, during the NBI anniversary warned AMLC members to cooperate with the DoJ’s investigation on bank transactions involving proceeds from drug trafficking.
But Aguirre noted that after Duterte’s warning, AMLC has sent them bank documents “that is useless.”
“I ordered a study if there could be a complaint to be filed [against AMLC] because I believe that there is already criminal negligence on the part of some people,” Aguirre said.
Earlier, he hinted that the AMLC could be protecting somebody. Aguirre said two ranking officials of AMLC are fraternity brothers of De Lima.