Just hours after his arrest, former Foreign Affairs Secretary Perfecto Yasay Jr. was rushed to the nearest hospital in Manila on Thursday afternoon.
Manila Police District (MPD) chief Brig. Gen. Vicente Danao Jr. confirmed to INQUIRER.net in a Viber message that Yasay was brought to the Manila Doctors Hospital after experiencing “chest pain.”
Yasay will stay at the hospital overnight while police escorts are assigned to accompany him, Danao noted.
Yasay was taken under police custody after law enforcers served his arrest warrant for allegedly violating various banking laws.
The arrest warrant was issued by Judge Danilo Leyva, Presiding Judge of Regional Trial Court Branch 10 in the City of Manila.
Yasay was arrested just hours before over a complaint against him by the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP). (READ: Ex-DFA chief Yasay arrested over P350-M bank loan case)
In its complaint, the BSP accused Yasay in 2011 of violating banking laws during his stint as a director of the Banco Filipino Savings and Mortgage Bank.
Among the accusations was that he, along with other Banco Filipino officials, conspired and aided each other in securing a questioned ₱350-million loan.
READ: Ex-DFA Chief Yasay Arrested Over ₱350-Million Bank Loan Case
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This article first appeared on Rappler & Inquirer.net.
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