“Yung bank records, bank accounts, dapat sabihin kung anong bank accounts yun. Hindi puwedeng i-subpoena ang mga records ng lahat ng bangko sa Pilipinas na hindi naming alam na mayroon bank account yung respondents. Delikado yun.
Dangerous yun sa mga taong-bayan,” Enrile said. (“The prosecution must state the bank account number. It is not right for the Senate to subpoena the records of all banks in the Philippines without us knowing the bank account numbers of the respondents.
That’s dangerous for the people.”) “To be fair, they (prosecution) have to specify (the bank account number),” Enrile said. Bank account holders in the Philippines are protected by the Bank Secrecy Act.
However, the request for subpoena on bank accounts was withdrawn by the House prosecution panel after the impeachment court ruled to disallow the presentation of evidence on the alleged ill-gotten wealth of Corona, a stray complaint in the eight-article impeachment charge, that the defense panel had vigorously objected to.
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