THE 11-man House prosecution panel yesterday asked the Senate impeachment court to subpoena four local banks to produce the bank accounts of Supreme Court (SC) Chief Justice Renato Corona and his wife Cristina as the House opposition bloc expressed their discontent with the performance of their colleagues.

In a four-page request, the panel also moved to require officials of the Bank of the Philippine Islands (BPI), the Rizal Commercial Banking Corp. (RCBC), the Philippine National Bank (PNB) and the state-owned Land Bank of the Philippines (LBP) to testify on the bank documents.

The prosecution asked that the subpoenas be addressed to the presidents of the BPI, RCBC and LBP or their authorized representatives and managers of BPI Ayala Avenue Branch in Makati City and RCBC Katipunan Avenue Branch in Quezon City.

The bank officials are being asked to bring with them true copies of the account opening forms and monthly statements of the bank accounts in the name of the Corona couple, when they appear at the trial scheduled this Thursday.

Corona is accused of ill-gotten wealth consisting of high-priced real properties and huge bank deposits. Prosecutors alleged that he failed to declare these assets in his Statements of Assets, Liabilities and Net Worth (SALN) since his appointment as SC associate justice in 2002 and chief justice in 2010 by detained former President turned-Pampanga Rep. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo.

During yesterday’s regular House opposition bloc press conference, House Minority Leader and Quezon Rep. Danilo Suarez said they were unhappy with the performance of the prosecution panel following its supposed bumbling presentation of evidence.