The Philippine Navy’s Vice-Admiral Alberto Carlos was relieved of his post after the wiretapping scandal broke in early May. - PHOTO: AFP
MANILA (The Straits Times/ANN): A senior Philippine Navy commander embroiled in an alleged wiretapped conversation with a Chinese diplomat has denied forging a so-called “new deal” with Beijing to de-escalate tensions over a disputed shoal in the South China Sea.
Vice-Admiral Alberto Carlos on May 22 faced a Philippine Senate committee that kicked off an investigation into the Chinese Embassy’s alleged recording of a phone call, made in early January, between the senior Filipino military official and a Chinese military attache whom Mr Carlos identified only as “Colonel Li”.
