Malacañang to disclose more details on ‘plunder’ of MRT-3

BEGINNING next week, Presidential Spokesperson Herminio Harry L. Roque, Jr. will be divulging “facts and details” about the alleged “plunder” of the Metro Rail Transit 3 (MRT-3).

“Perhaps beginning next week, I will devote one day a week in disclosing facts and details about the plunder of MRT-3. But I have documents already. I’m just giving notice to the NBI (National Bureau of Investigation) and DoJ (Department of Justice) before I go public with the documents. But I promised that this will be a continuing activity that we will have here, which is dissecting the plunder of MRT-3,” Mr. Roque told reporters in a press briefing at the Palace on Thursday, March 8.

The spokesman announced last Tuesday that President Rodrigo R. Duterte has ordered Solicitor-General Jose C. Calida to look further into the cases that could be filed against former officials of former president Benigno S. C. Aquino III, including Manuel A. Roxas II and Joseph Emilio A. Abaya, the former heads of the then Department of Transportation and Communications.

Asked who will initiate the filing of the new cases, Mr. Roque said: “We’ll see, because I’m directly turning over documents to the NBI and the DoJ, so we will see what they will do with the documents. But in due course, after I’ve submitted the documents, we could release even some of these official documents in the following weeks.”