President: PNP chief ‘never lived luxuriously’

President Benigno Aquino 3rd again defended embattled Philippine National Police (PNP) chief Alan Purisima from accusations that he amassed unexplained wealth.

Aquino told Filipino reporters in the US on Tuesday (Wednesday in Manila) that he had known Purisima since 1987 when the PNP chief was with the Presidential Security Group under the administration of his mother, the late former President Corazon Aquino.