DETAINED businessman Delfin Lee on Monday accused Vice President Jejomar C. Binay of allegedly attempting to extort P200 million from him shortly after the vice president assumed office in 2010.
Lee, in his statement read over at the Senate committee hearing presided by Senators Aquilino Pimentel III and Antonio Trillanes IV, disclosed that Binay, through Gerry Limlingan, allegedly demanded the huge amount of money from him in two separate meetings in Makati City sometime in 2010.
He added that he would have been spared of serious charges in connection with the P6.6-billion housing scam had he given the money to Limlingan.
Trillanes said Limlingan had been mentioned in previous Senate hearings as an associate of Binay.