Binay camp: Trillanes owns eight “luxury vehicles”

Vice President Jejomar Binay’s political party, the United Nationalist Alliance, has accused Senator Antonio Trillanes IV of owning eight “luxury vehicles” not listed on his Statement of Assets, Liabilities and Net Worth (SALN). They claimed that the “luxury vehicles” include two sports utility vehicles, five vans and a big motorcycle. These were not included when he was a Navy lieutenant second grade.

But if you read the statement, it lists vehicles that are obviously old or can only be bought second-hand. The Mitsubishi Delica van, for example, is an import sold only as a surplus model.

“Senator Trillanes styles himself as a moral crusader, but all these years he has evaded the issue of how he was able to afford eight luxury vehicles with his salary in the military and why he did not declare them in his SALN. This is a clear violation of the law,” Atty. JV Bautista, interim secretary general UNA said in a statement on Tuesday.
At that time, a salary of his rank was around P22,000, Bautista said.

 

The accusation comes at a time when Trillanes insisted that Chinese-Filipino businessman Antonio Tiu was used for fronting Binay on the ownership of a 350-hectare property in Batangas. Tiu, however, denied that he was used as a dummy by Binay.

Bautista said that according to Land Transportation Office records, the following vehicles are registered under Trillanes:

• Mitsubishi Pajero, license plate RIZ-222 model 2000

• Nissan Terrano, license plate UJW-717, model 1996

• Mitsubishi Delica, license plate XBD-542

• Mitsubishi Delica, license plate XCZ-552

• Mitsubishi Delica, license plate XBF-574

• Mitsubishi Delica, license plate XBY-183

• Mitsubishi Delica, license plate WLU-445

• Kawasaki motorcycle, license plate PH-6949, model 1995.

“If he says that his crusade is against corruption, then he should start with himself, being the owner of eight expensive vehicles,” he said. With report by Frances Mangosing