Senator Leila De Lima who has been accused of receiving kickbacks from the illegal drug trade said on Friday that she does not keep billions of pesos in secret bank accounts.
"I have no millions or billions in my bank accounts. And I have no dummy accounts. Any alleged accounts that would be linked to me and my alleged drug links can only be fictitious," Senator De Lima said in a statement.
The Department of Justice recently ordered the NBI to look into the lady senator's connection to the illegal drug trade at the Bilibid.
They have also asked the Anti-Money Laundering Council to investigate the alleged 10 dummy bank accounts of De Lima containing drug money.
The bank accounts were said to be under the names of her closest friends and employees. One of them was Ronnie Dayan, who said to be her driver-lover.
Senator De Lima fired back at one of her chief accusers, Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre, as leader of a 'mafia or lies of intrigues.'
"Sec Aquirre and his operators are a mafia of lies and intrigues, who go to bed with criminal convicts just to get their perjured testimonies," De Lima said.
The Justice Secretary said earlier on Friday that he was considering seeking a freeze on bank accounts containing drug money. He said he did not expect De Lima to deposit alleged drug pay offs in her personal account.
Source: ABS-CBN
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