Drug pushers, manufacturers, cultivators, importers and financiers can no longer hide their ill-gotten money in banks, as a bill filed by Sen. Panfilo M. Lacson seeks to strip them of their rights under the Bank Secrecy Act.
Lacson said his Senate Bill 1025, which strengthens the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002, is a proactive move to support the government’s unrelenting war against illegal drugs.
“Experiences of the past tell us that our country’s high regard to the secrecy of bank deposits results to law enforcers’ limited authority in terms of confiscation and forfeiture of money or proceeds of the sale or trade of illegal drugs,” he said in his bill, titled “An Act Authorizing the Examination of Bank Deposits, Accounts and Records of Pushers, Manufacturers, Cultivators, Importers and Financiers of Dangerous Drugs, Amending for the Purpose Republic Act No. 9165 and for Other Purposes.”
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