Naitakas na ni Garcia ang kayamanan niya

Ang bagal kasing kumilos ng mga authorities eh:

Sen. Sergio Osmeña III said yesterday Maj. Gen. Carlos Garcia hauled several boxes containing P38 million in cash from a Makati bank on Oct. 7, a week before his bank accounts were frozen by the Court of Appeals on the prompting of the Anti-Money Laundering Council.

The accounts at the United Coconut Planters Bank branch in Salcedo Village were in the name of Garcia, his wife Clarita and Timothy Mark, Ian Carl, and Juan Paolo.

Osmeña said eight UPCB accounts in all, of which six were peso accounts and two were dollar accounts, were cleaned up by Garcia before the freeze order.

A summary prepared by the government said earlier that the freeze order was able to cover only seven of the 40 accounts of the Garcias in seven banks and other financial institutions. The deposits in 33 others had been withdrawn before the appellate court could act.

At bakit hindi kumikibo itong abogado ni GMA ng miyembro ng "The Firm" na si DefSec Nonong Cruz?

Pimentel said that Cruz, who took over the helm of the Department of National Defense more than two months ago, cannot do a Pilate on the unexplained wealth charges of Garcia and other ranking AFP officers because he is the civilian supervisor of the military establishment.

"Secretary Cruz has been keeping a sphinx-like silence over the scandal and I am wondering why. If he keeps acting that way, he will be marginalized not only in the eyes of the Armed Forces but also in the eyes of the people," he said.

Pimentel said the public has yet to hear from Cruz on what steps he has taken on the prosecution of the charges against Garcia for allegedly amassing ill-gotten wealth and on the rooting out of deep-seated corruption in the military.

"When you are the secretary of national defense, anything that happens in your department is your problem. And it is incumbent upon him to have spoken out and take a position either way - if he wants to defend Garcia, he should have come out and said he was in the right. Or if he thinks Gen. Garcia committed something wrong, he should have acted accordingly. Apparently, he decided to wash his hands of the controversy," he said.

I don't know Sen. Pimentel... could it be that he's part of the coverup? Just Asking.