In a letter sent to the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee, Victor Fernandez, Wong's counsel, said the latter is currently out of the country for medical treatment.
Fernandez said Wong left the country March 4, 2016, supposedly before the "instant controversy" broke out.
(The Philippine Daily Inquirer first reported about an alleged $100-million money-laundering on February 29, 2016, and it was reported on March 3 that the the Anti-Money Laundering Council (AMLC) had frozen the suspected accounts used in the transaction. Wong left the following day. -- Ed's note.)
He likewise asked the Senate to keep his client's medical records private, assuring them that Wong will cooperate once he is done with his medical treatment.
In an exclusive interview with ABS-CBN News, RCBC Jupiter branch manager Maia Santos Deguito said Wong, who owns one of six bank accounts allegedly used in moving millions of dollars stolen by unknown hackers from the Bank of Bangladesh and laundered in casinos in Parañaque City, is a friend of RCBC president and CEO Lorenzo Tan.
Deguito said Kim Wong referred to her four persons who opened on May 2015 the other bank accounts linked to the scam: Michael Francisco Cruz, Jessie Christopher Lagrosas, Alfred Santos Vergara and Enrico Teodoro Vasquez.
Manager tags RCBC president's 'friend' in laundering scandal
Tan and Deguito are expected to attend the hearing of the Senate blue ribbon committee and the congressional oversight committee about the controversy on Tuesday afternoon.
source: www.abs-cbnnews.com
