Who is general jacinto ligot

The Office of the Ombudsman has been working to forfeit in favor of the government P Ligot, a former comptroller of the Armed Forces of the Philippines AFP , was involved in one of the biggest corruption scandals in Philippine military history where he and other officials were accused of amassing unexplained wealth, including receiving send-off money.

The first to be exposed in was his successor, retired Major General Carlos Garcia, who also once faced plunder charges until he entered into a plea bargain deal with the government under then-Ombudsman Merceditas Gutierrez. Ligot tried to invoke the bank secrecy law in arguing that his foreign deposit records were accessed without his consent. The anti-graft law was enacted in The later law typically prevails over earlier laws.

AMLC report struck off. Bank secrecy laws in the Philippines will not apply in certain cases such as impeachment, cases related to the Human Security Act, and some kinds of forfeiture cases such as when a deposit makes its way to a wrong account and the bank needs to retrieve it.

The Ligots still face a related Pmillion forfeiture case at the anti-graft court Sandiganbayan. Lian Buan covers justice and corruption for Rappler. She is interested in decisions, pleadings, audits, contracts, and other documents that establish a trail. While they denied purchasing some of the properties, they did not present evidence to back their claims, according to the decision penned by Associate Justice Bayani Jacinto.

Ligot served in the Armed Forces for more than two decades, from until his retirement in In deciding on which should be declared ill-gotten, the Sandiganbayan noted several factors, including that the public official's total cash outflow must be "manifestly out of proportion" to the dispensable income.

Meanwhile, the forfeiture case against Ligot's brother-in-law, Edgardo Tecson Yambao, was dismissed. Yambao was accused of acting as Ligot's front in purchasing some of the properties, but the Sandiganbayan said he was able to submit evidence of his independent financial capacity.