The Standard - 2016 March 23- Wednesday

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VOL. XXX NO. 42 3 Sections 32 Pages P18 WEDNESDay : MaRCH 23, 2016 www.thestandard.com.ph editorial@thestandard.com.ph

21 killed in bomb blasts in Brussels

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duterte ties poe

Binay, Roxas close behind in new Pulse Asia survey By Sandy araneta, Macon Ramos-araneta, Rio n. araja and John Paolo Bencito

SENATOR Grace Poe and Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte are statistically tied as the preferred candidate for president, the latest survey by Pulse Asia said Tuesday. “The May 2016 presidential elections is shaping up to be a very tight race involving four contend-

ers,” Pulse Asia said. Sharing the top spot were Poe and Duterte at 26 percent and 25

percent, respectively. Close behind them were Vice President Jejomar Binay at 22 percent and administration candidate Manuel Roxas II at 20 percent. In third place was Senator Miriam Defensor Santiago, with 3 percent. The survey, commissioned by ABS-CBN, was conducted from March 8 to 13, had over 4,000 respondents and a margin of error of 1.5 percent.

The most favored presidential candidates in Metro Manila were Poe (30 percent), Duterte (29 percent), and Binay (23 percent). Poe scored the highest voter preference in the rest of Luzon (34 percent). Roxas was the top pick for president in the Visayas (36 percent), while Duterte led not only in Mindanao (46 percent) but also in Class ABC (35 percent). Poe and Duterte are the

leading presidential bets in Class D (26 percent and 25 percent, respectively). In Class E, four presidential candidates enjoy basically the same voter preferences—Poe (27 percent), Binay (25 percent), Duterte (23 percent), and Roxas (21 percent). The leading alternative presidential candidate is Poe as 30 percent of those with a first choice for

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On suspicious transactions. Julia Bacay-Abad, executive director of the Anti-Money-Laundering Council Secretariat, explains how the council tracks down suspicious bank transactions at the central bank building on Tuesday. Danny Pata

There will be no issue of The Standard beginning Thursday (March 24) in keeping with the Holy Week break. We will resume publication on Easter Sunday (March 27).

RCBC manager turns down govt protection By Macon Ramos-araneta THE dismissed manager of RCBC Jupiter branch in Makati, Maia Santos Deguito, has turned down a government offer to enter the witness protection program despite the money laundering charges being filed against her, Senator Sergio Osmeña III said Tuesday.

“We offered Maia the WPP but she turned it down,” Osmeña, chairman of the Senate committee on banks and financial institutions, told radio dwIZ. Osmeña’s committee, together with the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee chaired by Senator Teofisto Guingona III, has conducted two hearings into the

scandal involving $81 million stolen by hackers from the Bangladesh Bank that was channeled through RCBC and local casinos. RCBC on Tuesday said it has fired Deguito and her former customer relations officer, Angela Torres, for violating bank policies and procedures and falsification of commercial documents. Next page


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