Caloocan City 3rd District Rep. Dean Asistio said he met ‘Pacifico’ Curlee Discaya, who implicated him in the flood control corruption scandal, only once.
Asistio recalled this instance in a chance interview after attending a hearing of the Independent Commission for Infrastructure (ICI) on Tuesday.
‘We met once,’ Asistio emphasized.
According to the lawmaker, he met Discaya in November 2024 during an event at Camp Aguinaldo in Quezon City.
‘There was an awarding ceremony inside Camp Aguinaldo. I was one of the awardees. Mr. Discaya was there as the award presenter,’ the lawmaker told reporters.
‘We met only once and then, I was just introduced to him. That was it,’ he recalled.
Since then, Asistio said he never saw Curlee again.
During a Senate hearing in September, Discaya implicated Asistio and several others in the flood control scandal, saying that they allegedly solicited money from his firm in connection with flood control projects.
Asistio denied the allegations.