The former secretary of Supreme Court Associate Justice Consuelo Ynares-Santiago has denied involvement in the reported P10-million payoff allegedly received by the lady justice several months ago.
"I had nothing to do with it, nor did I have any knowledge of such alleged attempted bribery," Daisy Cecilia Muñoz-Delis said in an affidavit.
Delis also denied that Ynares-Santiago fired her after she accidentally opened one of the five boxes of money allegedly delivered to the magistrate.
The report about the payoff first came out last week in a column written by Malaya newspaper publisher Jake Macasaet.
He said a lady justice at the high court allegedly fired her secretary last March after the latter mistakenly opened one of five gift boxes delivered to the magistrate. The secretary thought the boxes contained perishables, but found out that these contained money. Macasaet claimed the boxes contained P10 million. | source : GMANews.TV | |||
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Online magazine Newsbreak on Monday identified the justice in question as Ynares-Santiago and the secretary as Delis. Newsbreak said the alleged payoff might have something to do with two decisions that Ynares-Santiago penned: the dismissal of the criminal case against Henry Go, former chairman and president of the Philippine International Air Terminals Corp, and the Maysilo land dispute. But Delis, who identified herself as a judicial staff officer of the Presidential Electoral Tribunal detailed at the office of Ynares-Santiago, said she “voluntarily resigned from (her) post on March 15, 2007." She said she told Macasaet in a September 21 letter that she was not fired from her job but voluntarily submitted her resignation. She, however, did not specify why she quit her post. Delis, a niece of the late Associate Justice Cecilia Munoz-Palma, also said that she executed her affidavit to allow Ynares-Santiago to defend her honor before the justice is actually named in the series of articles written by Macasaet. - GMANews.TV
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