A military officer on Sunday denied the police's "insinuation" that embattled Marine Lt. Col. Ferdinand Marcelino is financially benefitting from illegal drugs.
"The bank transactions that PNP-AIDG (Philippine National Police Anti-Illegal Drugs Group presented were meant to discredit Ltcol Marcelino," Marcelino's spokesperson Major Vonne Villanueva said in a statement.
Villanueva said Marcelino "categorically denies the insinuations by PNP-AIDG that he is profiting from illegal drugs trade."
The PNP-AIDG announced last Thursday that its investigators are coordinating with the Anti-Money Laundering Council to look into the financial records of Marcelino.
Chief Inspector Roque Merdegia, spokesperson of AIDG, said that also seized 13 bank deposit slips from Marcelino during a drug raid at a townhouse in Sta. Cruz, Manila last January 21.
Seized during the raid were more than 60 kilos of shabu.
Mardegia said that based on the bank deposit slips, Marcelino withdrew at least P2.25 million from May of 2014 until March 2015.
Aside from the drugs and the bank transaction receipts, he said operatives also seized cash -- P2,510, $210, Aus$15 and HK$20 -- from Marcelino.
Marcelino's bag also yielded P86,000 cash, the AIDG spokesperson added.
Villanueva said that Marcelino kept the bank receipts and AFP passbooks "as part of his personal financial records and his confidential operational fund records when he was still with ISAFP (Intelligence Service of the Armed Forces of the Philippines)."
"I would not discuss the details in public due to its sensitive nature and the fact that they have not filed another case against him related to these bank deposits," the former military spokesman said.
Villanueva said that the embattled Marine official is willing to sign a waive for AMLC to probe into his bank records "only if his accusers will do the same."
http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/story/553427/news/nation/spokesman-marcelino-not-profiting-from-illegal-drugs
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