Dismissed Rizal Commercial Banking Corporation or RCBC branch manager Maia Santos Deguito admitted to the senate blue ribbon committee that she lied in her reply to the bank’s show cause memo.
Deguito, alleged facilitator of the transfer of the 81-million dollar that suspiciously went through the country’s financial system including local casinos to five accounts in her branch on Jupiter Street in Makati City, said it was casino junket operator Kim Wong who instructed her to transfer the funds to william go’s account.
However, Wong denied Deguito’s claims.
Deguito also disclosed that she referred the remitting company PHILREM Service Corporation to Wong.
The senate hearing on the 81 million dollars allegedly stolen from the central bank of Bangladesh will resume for its seventh session next Tuesday, April 26.