SENATOR FRANCIS “KIKO” PANGILINAN’S STATEMENT ON SUITCASES

Puro pasaring. Puro alegasyon. Puro palabas.

Gusto lang mantsahan ang naiulat na pag-upo ko bilang chairperson ng Senate Blue Ribbon Subcommittee na mag-iimbestiga sa flood-control scam.

Wala ni katiting na basehan ang mga tangkang pagdungis sa aking pagkatao ng mga nagpa-presscon tungkol sa mga maletang kaugnay sa bilyon-bilyong pisong ninakaw sa kaban ng bayan.

At dahil dinamay niyo pa ang pamilya ko, makakatikim kayo ng hindi pasaring, alegasyon, o palabas na kaso sa korte. Pananagutan ninyo ang paninirang ginagawa niyo. 

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All insinuations. All allegations. All show.

They just want to stain my reported appointment as chairperson of the Senate Blue Ribbon Subcommittee that will investigate the flood-control scam.

The attempts to sully my character have no basis whatsoever.

And because you, through your open forum about the suitcases allegedly linked to billions of pesos stolen from the public treasury, have implicated my family, you will now face something that is neither an insinuation, an allegation, nor a spectacle — in court. You will be held accountable for the slander you have committed.