In the News: JV Bautista reveals Villar’s Behest Loans

“…Lawyer JV Bautista, a senatorial candidate of the Pwersa ng Masang Pilipino of former President Estrada, revealed alleged behest loans of Senator Villar…. Bautista said the beneficiary of the P1.5-billion loan Villar obtained from the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas in 1998, when he was still Speaker of the House, was the senator’s Capitol Development Bank, now renamed Optimum Development Bank….”

SWS: Noynoy 42%, Villar 35%, Erap 13%

Philstar.com – Tuesday, February 2

MANILA, Philippines – Liberal Party standard-bearer Sen. Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III continued to top the list of presidential candidates in the latest survey conducted by the Social Weather Stations (SWS), but Nacionalista Party bet Sen. Manny Villar has further narrowed the gap to just seven percentage points.

JV to Villar: Account for “other public misconduct”

PRESS RELEASE. January 31, 2010.

Account for “other public misconduct,” Villar told

JV Bautista calls for audit of behest loans

Amid the controversy on the so-called “C-5 project scam,” a human rights lawyer and former party-list congressman is demanding that Senator Manuel Villar account for his other misdeeds and public misconducts, including his behest loans and “other financial accommodations” from the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) to his Capitol Bank in 1998, when Villar was speaker of the House.

Lawyer JV Bautista, a former Sanlakas party-list representative, said aside from the findings of the Senate committee of the whole indicting Villar for conflict of interest, the billionaire senator must also be made to return the billions he owed the government.