The Bangladesh Ambassador to the Philippines rejected an offer of a remittance company to return P10 million from its profits as an apology over the hacked $81 million.
The offer was made by Salud Bautista, president of PhilRem Service Corporation, during the seven-hour public hearing by the Senate Blue Ribbon committee on the money laundering issue involving the Rizal Commercial Banking Corporation.
Bautista formally made the return offer to Retired Maj. Gen. John Gomes after the public hearing but Gomes stressed that since the money was hacked in New York, there would be international jurisdictions involved.
Thus, Gomes said, he could not accept the money, saying he is just an ambassador that he has to report back to his government.
-Manila Bulletin
