Vice President Jejomar Binay on Tuesday said he proposed the creation of a Blood Money Committee in 2012 to en- sure prompt government action on overseas Filipino worker (OFW) cases invol- ving the payment of blood money but Malacañang, according to him, did not act on his proposal.

Binay recently visited the family of OFW Joselito Zapanta, who was executed in Saudi Arabia on December 29 last year.

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