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Ex-RCBC branch manager Deguito arrested

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<div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img src="http://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/news-special1/metro/7/05/20160315-deguito-senate-jc.jpg"/><figcaption><div class="embed-desc">Former branch manager of Rizal Commercial Banking Corp.(RCBC) Maia Deguito <em>Jonathan Cellona, ABS-CBN News</em></div></figcaption></figure></div><p>MANILA - Maia Deguito, the former branch manager of Rizal Commercial Banking Corp. (RCBC) tagged in the $81-million money laundering scandal, was arrested on Wednesday for perjury, police said.</p><p>Deguito was arrested in a supermarket in Makati City by virtue of an arrest warrant issued by Judge Eduardo Cruz Solangon Jr. of Pasay Regional Trial Court Branch 46. </p><p>The arrest warrant was issued on August 10.</p><p>Deguito&#x27;s legal counsel said the complainant was not identified in the arrest warrant. </p><p>Deguito also did not undergo preliminary investigation, which should have been the basis for the arrest, the lawyer said.</p><p>Deguito will post bail of P6,000.</p><figure class="op-interactive"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameBorder="0" height="350" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/i0u6zIcwclI" width="510"></iframe></figure><p>In April, then-RCBC president Lorenzo Tan sued Deguito and her lawyer Ferdinand Topacio for libel and false testimony over her statements on the $81 million heist involving Bangladesh central bank funds.</p><p>READ: <a href="http://news.abs-cbn.com/business/04/12/16/rcbcs-lorenzo-tan-sues-deguito-topacio" target="_blank">RCBC&#x27;s Lorenzo Tan sues Deguito, Topacio</a></p><p>Deguito, who also faces money laundering charges, maintained her innocence and claimed she was a <a href="http://news.abs-cbn.com/business/04/05/16/deguito-im-an-unwitting-scapegoat-in-heist" target="_blank">&quot;scapegoat&quot;</a> in the heist. <strong>-- Report from Mike Navallo, ABS-CBN News</strong></p>

<p>MANILA - Maia Deguito, the former branch manager of Rizal Commercial Banking Corp. (RCBC) tagged in the $81-million money laundering scandal, was arrested on Wednesday for perjury, police said.</p>

MANILA - Maia Deguito, the former branch manager of Rizal Commercial Banking Corp. (RCBC) tagged in the $81-million money laundering scandal, was arrested on Wednesday for perjury, police said.