THE Anti-Money Laundering Council will have to do what it has to do after President Rodrigo Duterte ordered it to reveal his net worth following the accusations he has P2 billion in illegal bank accounts, Malacañang said on Sunday.
“I don’t know about the accusations, but everything depends on the AMLC. They have to do what they have to do,” Presidential Spokesman Ernesto Abella told the state-run dzRB radio.
He said Duterte’s family started out poor, but eventually it was able to save money and left him an inheritance.
“They really had nothing, they were government employees so there was nothing there,” Abella said.
Except they were able to save, and when the father died he left an inheritance.”
Duterte had said he had ordered the AMLC to produce documents showing his net worth.
“I’ve ordered the AMLC and everybody to give information on what’s my worth in this planet,” Duterte told the members of the Philippine Military Academy Class of 1967.
Duterte was at a dinner with them at the Baguio Country Club on Feb. 17, the night before the PMA Homecoming. He is an honorary member of the PMA Class of 1967.
Duterte said he wanted to address the accusations of Senator Antonio Trillanes IV that he had as much as P2.4 billion in bank accounts that he failed to declare in his Statement of Assets, Liabilities, and Net worth.
Though he called the allegations a “rehash” and “pure garbage,” he insisted that he and the members of his family never obtained money illegally.
“I have not signed any voucher even for myself. I only receive a salary and that’s it. I do not accept my allowances. None for me. I avoided it and it will be so until the end of my term,” Duterte said.
He told the Class of 1967 that he would resign immediately if he or his family was involved in corruption.
He said the allegations against him would not make him back down from his promise to rid the government of corruption.