Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre II on Wednesday said Sen. Leila De Lima got the missing P300 million cash seized during the raid at the New Bilibid Prison in December 2014.
Aguirre said two innmate witnesses and an intelligence officer – discredited reports that only P1.6 million cash instead of more than P300 million was confiscated from prisoners housed in the maximum security compound during the raid on Dec. 15, 2014.
Asked where the missing cash went, Aguirre, quoting the witness, said: "Kay Secretary De Lima daw nga."
"Yan ang sagutin mo Secretary De Lima. Masyado kang yakyak ng yakyak," Aguirre said.
"Kapag ganoon ang tao, nawawala na sa katwiran. Hindi ka pwedeng magdepensa sa sarili nang wala kang pruweba," he added.
De Lima was justice secretary when the raid took place in NBP.
Aguirre also said the witness told President Rodrigo Duterte about the missing money in a letter dated August 4.
De Lima has been accused of tolerating drug syndicates inside the national penitentiary in exchange for large sums of money to bankroll her senatorial campaign this year.