Prosecutor General Benedicto Malcontento has assigned a panel of prosecutors who will conduct the preliminary investigation of the complaint filed against former Department of Transportation (DOTr) assistant secretary Mark Tolentino and his co-respondents in connection with the Wirecard scandal.
“The complaint will undergo preliminary investigation,” read the statement issued by the Office of the Prosecutor General (OPG).
“The Prosecutor General assigned prosecutors to thoroughly investigate the present complaint, with the directive that other pending or future cases between or among the same or related parties, involving controversy, shall likewise be consolidated to, and resolved by the same assigned prosecutors,” the OPG stated.
The statement did not mention who these prosecutors are.
Malcontento assigned the prosecutors after the complaint was filed before the Department of Justice (DOJ) last May 31 by the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) and the Bank of the Philippine Islands (BPI).
The complaint accused Tolentino and his law firm, M.K. Tolentino Law Office, of falsification of commercial documents and violating the General Banking Act, Electronic Commerce Act and the Cybercrime Prevention Act of 2012.
Tolentino’s co-respondents also include former Wirecard executive Austrian national Jan Marsalek, Joey Arellano, and Judith Pe.
June last year, Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra ordered the NBI to investigate those involved with Wirecard in the Philippines.
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