Malacanang's "attack dog" exposed once again. From Malaya:
Does the PNP know that a former Camp Crame supplier who has been tapped by Jose Miguel Arroyo's camp to accuse Sen. Panfilo Lacson of having foreign bank accounts is a convicted swindler?
Lito Banayo, Lacson's political adviser and spokesman, raised this question yesterday as he disclosed that Fil-Am businesswoman Blanquita Pelaez has a pending warrant of arrest and has been meted a jail penalty of six months to four years for frustrated estafa.
Banayo said it is surprising that the PNP has not arrested Pelaez despite the findings of the Makati regional trial court Branch 58 that she had duped a military supplies dealer in 1997.
Banayo said Pelaez even managed to recently hold a press conference arranged by the media handlers of Mr. Arroyo.
Banayo added that Pelaez walks in and out of Camp Crame complete with escorts.
Pelaez has sued Lacson in the United States for allegedly denying final payment for a supply of handcuffs when he was PNP chief.
Lacson said the payment he cancelled was to cover import duties on the handcuffs shipment which were for the account of Pelaez under her contract with the PNP.
"Mrs. Pelaez is obviously a crucial asset of Malacañang in this continuing effort to demolish Sen. Lacson and discredit his Jose Pidal expose," Banayo said.
In a five-page decision dated March 14,2003 issued by Makati Judge Winlove Dumayas, Pelaez was also ordered to pay the complainant, Erlinda Sanceda, P540,000 in damages.
Sanceda, a dealer for supplies for the Navy, said that sometime in March and April 1997 she gave Pelaez P540,000 for the purchase of night vision goggles.
"(The) accused falsely pretending that she has the ability and ways to procure night vision devices for the Navy at a lower price and by means of other deceits of similar import, induced and succeeded in inducing the complainant to give and deliver and the accused actually received the amount of P540,000 knowing fully well that her representations were false and fraudulent," Sanceda said in her complaint.
I will repeat the Banayo's question... why haven't the PNP arrested this convicted swindler?
Plus: Ninez Cacho-Olivares has an excellent article on how Malacanang has interfered in the Pidal Investigations from Day One up to now.
And the Tribune has a special 2-part report on the Erap Muslim Youth Foundation (EMYF) and GMA's Lualhati Foundation located here (Part I) and here (Part II). A must read for those who are following the Erap and GMA scandals.
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