Reelectionist Sen. Panfilo Lacson yesterday filed graft charges against Justice Secretary Raul Gonzalez before the Office of the Ombudsman for offering village officials in Iloilo P10,000 each in exchange for 12-0 sweep for administration senatorial candidates.
According to him, Gon-zalezs acts constitute the crime of attempted cor-ruption of public officials penalized under Article 212 in relation to Article 6 (Consummated, Frustrated and Attempted Felonies) of the Revised Penal Code.
The next day, Gonzalez responded by bringing up the Aragoncillo case:
Angered by the move of Genuine Opposition senatorial candidate, reelectionist Sen. Panfilo “Ping” Lacson of filing graft and corruption charges against the Department of Justice secretary for his offering of a bribe of P10,000 each to Iloilo village chiefs in return for a Team Unity senatorial sweep on May 14, the DoJ chief, Raul Gonzalez, yesterday threatened to have Lacson extradited to the US to face spy charges, saying he has the documents from the US government to prove that the senator is the brains behind the spying activities done by American-Filipino Leandro Aragoncillo, a former Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agent and former Philippine police officer, Michael Ray Aquino, a former Lacson aide.
Reeling from the graft complaint filed against him for “vote-buying,” Gonzalez yesterday vowed to indict his accuser, Lacson, before a US court.
Sought for comment, an irate Gonzalez in a phone interview insisted he had evidence against Lacson on his alleged involvement in a spying case in the US against a former Lacson aide.
“I have that document (against Lacson) but I don’t want to talk to the Tribune about it,” Gonzalez said, but stated nevertheless that his office is eyeing the possibility of processing the extradition of Lacson to the United States.
Deja vu? Replay?
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