{"id":6380,"date":"2015-03-20T14:11:02","date_gmt":"2015-03-20T06:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=6380"},"modified":"2015-03-20T14:11:02","modified_gmt":"2015-03-20T06:11:02","slug":"binay-law-firm-asks-sc-to-stop-probe-of-bank-accounts-abs-cbn-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2015\/03\/20\/binay-law-firm-asks-sc-to-stop-probe-of-bank-accounts-abs-cbn-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Binay law firm asks SC to stop probe of bank accounts &#124; ABS-CBN News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The law firm that has been dragged into the controversy involving allegations of corruption against Vice-President Jejomar Binay and his family has gone up to the Supreme Court (SC) in an effort to stop government&#8217;s reported examination of its bank accounts over suspected money laundering activities, and secure an order declaring all records and information obtained from this examination as &#8220;inadmissible&#8221; in any proceeding.<br \/>\nIn a 44-page petition for certiorari and prohibition filed last March 11, the Subido Pagente Certeza Mendoza and Binay Law Offices (SPCMB Law), the law firm representing the vice-president and one of his close allies and alleged dummy, businessman Antonio Tiu, urged the high court to stop the Anti-Money Laundering Council (AMLC) from proceeding with its examination and scrutiny of SPCMB Law&#8217;s bank accounts. SPCMB Law asked the high court to declare unconstitutional the Anti-Money Laundering Act, in so far as it allows the examination of bank accounts &#8220;in any way related to a money laundering offense&#8221; without giving notice to the respondent(s).<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abs-cbnnews.com\/business\/03\/20\/15\/binay-law-firm-asks-sc-stop-probe-bank-accounts\">Binay law firm asks SC to stop probe of bank accounts | ABS-CBN News<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The law firm that has been dragged into the controversy involving allegations of corruption against Vice-President Jejomar Binay and his family has gone up to the Supreme Court (SC) in an effort to stop government&#8217;s reported examination of its bank accounts over suspected money laundering activities, and secure an order declaring all records and information &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2015\/03\/20\/binay-law-firm-asks-sc-to-stop-probe-of-bank-accounts-abs-cbn-news\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Binay law firm asks SC to stop probe of bank accounts &#124; ABS-CBN News&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,65,66,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal-angol","category-philippines","category-politics","category-reposts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6380\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}