{"id":18813,"date":"2012-05-26T05:00:52","date_gmt":"2012-05-26T05:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clearwaterphilippines.com\/wordpress\/?p=18813"},"modified":"2012-05-26T05:00:52","modified_gmt":"2012-05-26T05:00:52","slug":"palace-corona-validated-charges-against-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.clearwaterphilippines.com\/resort\/2012\/05\/palace-corona-validated-charges-against-him\/","title":{"rendered":"Palace: Corona validated charges against him"},"content":{"rendered":"

CHIEF Justice Renato Corona confirmed the charges against him through his testimony at the Senate impeachment trial Friday, a Malaca\u00f1ang spokesman said.
\nPresidential spokesperson Edwin Lacierda said Corona “has become the best witness for the prosecution” as he admitted having dollar accounts, which are not listed in his statement of assets, liabilities and net worth (SALN).
\n“Mr. Corona has finally admitted what the impeachment court had wanted to find out. Had he withheld information from his SALN? He did. Did the information include dollar accounts? Yes,” Lacierda said.
\nHe noted the significant increase in Corona’s assets for the last two years.
\n“In 2010 SALN, he reported 3.5 million pesos in cash. Today, he admitted he has 80 million pesos in the bank, and that furthermore, he has $2.4 million dollars,” he said.
\nLacierda said Corona “has proven, by his demeanor and his very own statements, the validity of the charges against him, and provided evidence more than sufficient to determine his fate.”
\nThe Palace official also criticized Corona’s defense that he did not declare his dollar accounts because of Republic Act 6426, or the Foreign Currency Deposit Act of the Philippines.
\n“By his testimony today, Mr. Corona has proposed that a 1974 law is supreme over the requirements of the 1987 Constitution,” said Lacierda.
\n“He has made his legal legacy a ‘Get Out of Jail Free Card’ for all officials who are plunderers and crooks,” he added.
\n“They will merely have to park their ill-gotten funds in foreign currency accounts to immunize themselves from the effects of our anti-graft laws,” he said.
\nLead prosecutor Niel Tupas Jr. shared Lacierda’s view in saying that Corona’s interpretation of the law is “ridiculous.”
\n“If that’s the interpretation, then all the crooks in government will just convert their money to dollars and the constitutional provision on disclosure to the public will be rendered nugatory,” he said.
\nDuring clarificatory questioning from Senator Chiz Escudero, Corona said there seems to be a conflict between the foreign deposit law and the SALN Law.
\n“I believe that the dollar deposits need not be reported in the SALN because of RA 6426,” Corona added.
\nCorona admitted that he has $2.4 million accounts and P80 million in peso accounts but dismissed the $10 million to $12 million claim of Ombudsman Conchita Caprio-Morales allegedly contained in 82 dollar accounts.
\nAurora Representative Sonny Angara said it is now up to the senator-judges whether they will accept a “scoundrel’s interpretation of law.”
\n“Will they accept that absurd interpretation of the foreign currency deposit law? How come no one is condemning the Chief Justice for that interpretation? It’s really, really crazy,” Angara said.
\nHouse Deputy Majority Leader Miro Quimbo, a spokesperson for the prosecution, said Corona should not only be convicted for the substantial money he failed to declare in his SALNs, but also for his “anomalous interpretation” of the law.
\nLawyers of Corona have made a formal offer of evidence to mark the end of their presentation of facts to dispute the allegations against the magistrate.
\nLead defense counsel Serafin Cuevas made the manifestation on Friday as earlier mandated by Senate President Juan Ponce-Enrile.
\nThe court also accepted the additional documentary evidence from the prosecution with the defense expected to submit its reservations on these on Monday.
\nThe case is now submitted to the court for final resolution subject to closing arguments on Monday (May 28), where both camps are given one hour each to make a last ditch effort to convince the senator-judges.
\nA verdict may also come out on the same day or at the latest Tuesday.
\nhttp:\/\/www.sunstar.com.ph\/manila\/local-news\/2012\/05\/25\/palace-corona-validated-charges-against-him-223384<\/p>\n

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