Press Release
February 23, 2007

LACSON TO DETRACTORS:
QUIT WASTING TAXES FOR DEMOLITION JOB

Instead of wasting taxpayers money in another round of black propaganda, administration candidates should consider promoting good government by pushing for a measure excluding public officials from the bank secrecy act.

Re-electionist Sen. Panfilo Lacson hurled this challenge Friday at administration lawmakers who accused him of maintaining hidden wealth, even as he maintained he has no hidden wealth because he has never been corrupt in public service.

I challenge their candidates to pledge support to the bill that I filed in the 12th and 13th Congresses, which I will re-file once elected. It calls for excluding all public officials from the coverage of the Bank Secrecy Act, Lacson said.

He hurled the challenge in particular to Rep. Douglas Cagas, who made the accusation of hidden wealth against him.

Lacson said Cagas latest attack had telltale signs of being a Malacañang blanket attribution to certain congressmen for a fee, which he said could be the signal for a renewed effort to launch a systematic black propaganda campaign against him to derail his candidacy.

They better come up with ideas other than reviving the Corpus-Mawanay ludicrous hidden wealth allegations. Otherwise they should stop wasting again taxpayers money for the effort, he said.

He noted that in 2001, then top military spy Victor Corpus and so-called witness Angelo Ador Mawanay surfaced in media and made claimed Lacson stashed multimillion-peso bank accounts in the United States.

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