Long arm of the law catching criminals via tax evasion...

Dear friend, I hope the BIR is not corrupted. Here in India all most every government financial system is corrupted. These people can also buy law for making their black money to white.

Pnoy is right instead of sounding off to media about their innocence, these personalities should just show evidence they paid their taxes correctly as proof of their innocence.

It's high time that BIR should be doing that to those rich people. I guess, it's their right to know if the rich people's declarations are true and accurate. BIR should now be working double time in doing that so that penalties could be imposed thus increasing the revenues that could eventually benefit all the citizenry.

Yes friend the best way to catch criminals is to look at their assets and bank accounts, I think this is not really new, I think the infamous mafia mobster Al Capone was caught this way by Eliot Ness when the FBI was still in it's infancy. Capone was too slippery to catch although he made a lot of money thru bootlegging during the prohibition, he was charged with tax evasion. Yes one thing with tax evasion charges is you have to explain where you got your unexplained wealth , so the other charges they would file will ensue based on evasion investigations

hope they can even reach their savings of million dollars abroad, and may the time for the investigation can be finalized the soonest. If you are watching eye witness and reporters notebook or have had watched these, I can not imagine how they enjoy and lured of so much pleasure while others are in the poorest of the poor situation. Possessed by their wickedness, and for how long will they keep for themselves all the material things they have gathered here on earth. Anyway, as they die, how much do you think is the cost of their life when they have to buy it back from store hell , well I think even to add the interest of their overflowing investments still not enough for their soul is much more priceless for satan.

I agree with you on that. some politicians, celebrities and other famous people are indeed dishonest, however there are also some who maintain a clean record. in politics, corruption has transformed from 'an-often-necessary-but-not-required' process to 'standard-operating-procedures'. It is just too much. But the present Philippine administration is coming up with ways to scrap this, DBM, BIR, COA are now raising the bar in terms of honesty and integrity, its just sad however that many could still get away with it.