Lacson says it is Faeldon’s “right to waste bond paper and ink”
(Eagle News) — Former Customs Commissioner Nicanor Faeldon will file ethics complaints against Senators Antonio Trillanes IV and Panfilo Lacson on Monday, his counsel said.
In a press conference on Friday, Atty. Martin Dino said Faeldon will ask the Senate’s Office of the Sergeant at Arms “to be allowed to personally file under guard” the complaints against the two senators, who have accused him of being corrupt.
Faeldon is being held at the OSAA, where he surrendered after being cited in contempt for refusing to attend Senate blue ribbon committee hearings on the P6.4 billion drug shipment that slipped through the Customs bureau in May, and on corruption in the agency.
Dino said the complaints would be filed around 11 a.m.
In a statement, Lacson said that while it was the “right of anybody to file an ethics complaint against any senator,” the Constitution was “clear on the matter.”
Lacson–who said Faeldon received a P100-million “pasalubong” in an explosive privilege speech that detailed corruption in the Bureau of Customs last month—then quoted Article VI, Section 11 as saying that “no member shall be questioned nor be held liable in any other place for any speech or debate in the Congress or any committee thereof.”
“Therefore, it is (Faeldon’s) right to waste bond paper and ink,” Lacson said.
“Anyway, he has the money to pay his lawyers even if it’s tantamount to an exercise in futility and stupidity,” he added.
