Ex-President Aquino No Records Of Expensive Car Purchase, LTO Says

LTO Records Shows Ex-President Aquino No Records Of Expensive Car Purchase

The Land Of Transportation Office (LTO) records shows the former President Benigno “Pnoy” Aquino III never bought or sold an expensive car.

Ex-President Aquino said that he bought a Porsche 911 Carrera a few months after taking his office as the president of the Philippines. He claimed that he sold his BMW for P5 million and bought the new vehicle at the same price.

There are some suspicions that Aquino’s Porsche was a gift from Chinese-Filipino tycoon and did not come from his own money.

Expensive Car

The Freedom of Information Act was one of Aquino’s promises during his campaign period last 2010, but he failed to implement it until his term as president ends. Aquino allegedly did not let the ‘Act’ pass, for he knows that media would disclose the deeds of sale and LTO registration for the purchase of his Porsche.

The former president relieved Chief Justice Renato Corona and controls the different versions of FOI bills filed were done in just 5 months. During Aquino’s term, there were no bills regarding this matter has been implemented.

President Rodrigo Duterte signed an executive order urging government agencies to be transparent in releasing their information, which is subject to restrictions on people’s right to privacy under the Constitution and national security.

Expensive Car

LTO head Edgar Galvante and his staff release the records from their computerized database and found out that there were no records of Aquino’s purchase a Porsche 911 or the BMW he sold to buy a new vehicle.

LTO records show Aquino’s registered cars were a 2003 Toyota Land Cruiser registered on January 1, 2000, and a 2016 Ford Explorer registered on June 15, 2016, 2 weeks before his presidency ends. One of its staff said that Mr. Aquino’s transfer of vehicle ownership will be recorded in their database.

Here are the two possible causes of the records; First, the staff was misinformed and would not able to record the information on the database on a person who buys and sell a car. Second, Aquino was lying and never bought the Porsche or sell it, instead, it was really a gift from a Chinese-Filipino tycoon.

In this case, we can see the differences between Aquino, who have numbers of vehicle and Duterte who is already happy with his 1988 pickup, which he was using since he was the Davao City mayor.

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