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BF V Purisima
BF V Purisima
V
PURISIMA
G.R. No. L-56429 May 28, 1988
by Heather Lunar
FACTS
Caturla, special agent of the Bureau of Customs, was accused by
BIR before the Tanodbayan of having allegedly acquired property
manifestly out of proportion to his salary and other lawful income,
in violation of the “Anti-Graft and Corrupt Practices Act.”
PRELIMINARY INVESTIGATION
Tanodbayan issued a subpoena
duces tecum to the Banco Filipino
Savings & Mortgage Bank.
Tanodbayan Caturla
issued a subpoena duces tecum to the Banco Filipino moved to quash the subpoena duces tecum arguing
Savings & Mortgage Bank, commanding its that compliance therewith would result in a
representative to appear at the Office of the violation of Sections 2 and 3 of the Law on Secrecy
Tanodbayan and furnish the latter with duly certified of Bank Deposits. Then Tanodbayan not only denied
copies of the records of the loans, savings and time the motion for lack of merit, and directed
deposits and other banking transactions appearing in compliance with the subpoena, but also expanded
the names of Caturla, his wife, their children and its scope through a second and third subpoena
friends . duces tecum,
FACTS
Lunar, Heather
Banco Filipino
BF Bank took over from Caturla in the
effort to nullify the subpoenae.
RESPONDENT
EXCEP
instances even without court order
EXCEP
serious irregularity has been or is being committed and
that is necessary to look into the deposit to establish
such fraud or irregularity