General, family transferred accounts to friends, says senator

MANILA, Philippines – A Senate investigation on Thursday revealed that the family of former military comptroller Jacinto Ligot had allegedly transferred several of their bank accounts to various individuals.
During the hearing of the blue ribbon committee investigating the fund scam in the military, Senator Franklin Drilon disclosed that Ligot, his wife, Erlinda, and children Paulo and Rizza transferred their accounts to a certain Hilda Velazquez, and a certain Maria Cristina Mercado Laurel and husband, Antonio Castillo Laurel.
Drilon said the information was based on the report made by the Anti-Money Laundering Council.
The senator made the disclosure while he was questioning Edgar Yambao, brother in law of Ligot.
Responding to Drilon's query if he knew Cristina Mercado Laurel, Yambao said yes, saying that she was the wife of his friend, Antonio Castilo Laurel.
“Sa aking pagsusuri ay isa po [Si Cristina] sa mga personalties kung saan nilipat yung account ng mga ligot...” said Drilon.
“Wala pong katotohanan yan,”said Yambao, saying that he had talked to the couple about it because the matter was part of a case filed before the Sandiganbaayan.
But Drilon went on saying that the AMLC report showed that some bank accounts belonging to Mr. and Mrs. Ligot and children, Paulo and Rizza, had been transferred to Velazquez and the Laurels.

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ROACH SAYS PACQUIAO HAS A FEW YEARS LEFT IN HIM

Roach told the Inquirer that “if Mayweather did come to the table, after beating him I would love to see Manny retire on that note but this guy is just playing games.”
Roach said he is convinced that Pacquiao is still getting better even as he took issue with those who have suggested that if he doesn’t fight Mayweather, Pacquiao should retire.
The celebrated trainer remarked, “why should he retire? He is in his prime. He just fought the best fight of his life (against Antonio Margarito.)”
Roach conceded that Margarito hurt Pacquiao “a couple of times” in their November 13 WBC light middleweight title fight but that was because Margarito “was 17 pounds heavier and a big guy. And this big guy put pressure on him all night long. It was Manny’s hardest fight, physically. He came out with his hands hurting a little bit because he landed so many shots and his side is a little sore. But he fought a big, strong guy.”
In a recent conference in Manila on “Boxing and the Brain” in which several neuro surgeons and specialists as well as renowned ring doctors from the US and Britain discussed sports-related head injuries and wondered whether Pacquiao should fight if its not Mayweather. Arum admitted that brain injuries are “a very big concern but that’s why at the start of every year he (Pacquiao” must take the finest possible MRI brain tests to make sure that there is no abnormality and that nothing bad has happened.”
Arum stressed that this is a “different issue and that issue is certainly always going to be there and always before he starts fighting for the New Year and before he gets into the ring in May, Manny will have a full test in the US.”
The astute Top Rank promoter who arrived in Manila early Tuesday morning to discuss Pacquiao’s next fight and his future in boxing as well as to attend Pacquiao’s 32nd birthday bash admitted that Pacquiao “is going to take poundings now in all of his fights because he is fighting naturally bigger guys. He fights as a welterweight but he is much smaller than the normal welterweight.”

Serial rape and murder accused Jack Mogale told the High Court in Johannesburg on Wednesday that he knew nothing of the rape, murder and kidnapping charges against him.

“I know nothing about these matters,” he replied to a question by defence counsel advocate Buhle Madondo.

Mogale faces 61 charges of, among other things, rape, murder and kidnapping carried out in Westonaria and Lenasia in 2008 and 2009.

Madondo also asked Mogale about the events of March 17 2008, when he left Westonaria Magistrate's Court after a case against him was postponed.

The court previously heard that he was on a train when he bumped into Emelina Mhangwani, a woman he later allegedly assaulted, robbed of her cellphone, raped and killed.

Judge Frans Kgomo asked Mogale if he remembered speaking to Mhangwani.

Mogale said: “I was very tired after attending court. When people talk to me I do not remember it. I don't remember talking to anyone on my way home.”

Wearing a blue, collared shirt without a tie, he rocked back and forth while on the stand.

“I alighted at Waterworks station, from there I went home,” he said. -

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