The Department of Justice (DOJ) has filed money laundering charges against five executives of Rizal Commercial Banking Corp. (RCBC).
The five executives involved are former RCBC treasurer Raul Victor Tan, national sales director Ismael Reyes, regional sales director Brigitte Capiña, customer service head for Jupiter business center Romualdo Agarrado, and senior customer relationship officer for Jupiter business center Angela Ruth Torres.
This was after state prosecutors denied their appeal against a decision that found sufficient evidence to charge them of money laundering.
The said charges are linked to their alleged involvement on the $81-million Bangladesh Bank heist last February 2016.
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According to Justice Undersecretary Markk Perete on Wednesday (May 22) the case was filed with the Makati Regional Trial Court (RTC) Branch 141.
Based on the 10-page resolution, the involved individuals’ complacent attitude in handling the suspicious remittances is unacceptable.
“As defined, ‘willful blindness’ is the deliberate avoidance or knowledge of a crime, especially by failing to make a reasonable inquiry about suspected wrongdoing, despite being aware that it is highly probable. There is no better way to describe the acts of respondents Tan, Capiña, Reyes, Agarrado, and Torres than this,” the resolution reads.
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