According to Atienza, it is useless to continue the inv3stigation if there is no concrete evidence proving that the DBP did not charge the Lopezes. The inv3stigation seems to be based on allegations.
“Otherwise, if you are asking the DBP to produce papers which will be detrimental to them, I think that is a dream, a vision. That is unfair to say the least. We’re asking them to penalize themselves. Kung meron tayong pruweba, ituloy natin. Kung wala naman tayong pruweba, huwag naman natin aksayahin ang panahon ng Kongreso sa mga allegations na wala naman dokumento… I am now speaking as an officer of the 18th Congress kung ang mga nag-a-alleged ay based on their own conjecture and they have nothing to prove, bring in this committee, and bring to this Congress. I would suggest that they should be required–produce your papers of irregularity for this committee to continue deliberating on it–and for the plenary to even take whatever comes out of this committee… At this point in time, I rest my case. Having (elicited) from the DBP officers, there is nothing irregular in the exercise of the SPV and the seller or the owner of the document do not make money in the transaction. Kung meron gumagawa ng pera dito, ‘yung bumibili, Now rightfully because they have the capital and that’s their business to make money out of financial transaction. Pero ang DBP hindi rin naging… kumita dito dahilang nangyari binenta nila ‘yung pagkaka-utang sa kanila, sinalo naman ng mas mayamang financing institution,” said Atienza.
Read the reaction from the netizens on Congressman Lito Atienza's suspension to the congressional hearing on the Lopez Family's alleged debt to the Development Bank of the Philippines (DBP):
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