Posted June 18th, 2012 by Julito G.
Rada
[ manilastandardtoday.com ]
STATE-RUN Bases Conversion and
Development Authority dismissed the perjury complaint filed against BCDA
president Arnel Paciano Casanova by Camp John Hay Development Corp., saying it
is a form of “harassment” and will not stop the agency from protecting the
interest of the government.
“Obviously, this perjury complaint
against BCDA president and [chief executive] Arnel Casanova is intended to
derail BCDA’s efforts in holding CJHDevco accountable for its acts and
omissions,” BCDA legal counsel Demetrio Custodio Jr. said in a statement over
the weekend.
“The filing of this harassment suit,
however, will not deter BCDA from performing its duty to uphold and protect the
rights and interests of the government and the Filipino people,” BCDA corporate
secretary Peter Paul Flores said.
Manuel Ubarra Jr., CJHDevco vice
president for litigation, alleged that Casanova wrongly accused CJHDevco
officials of using false pretenses to deceive and induce the agency to enter
into a ‘dacion en pago’ agreement on May 27, 2011 to settle its outstanding
obligation with BCDA.
But Custodio said “BCDA exercised due
diligence and did not deliberately and willfully omit facts when it filed the
estafa complaint against Robert John Sobrepeña and other responsible officers
of CJHDevco.”
(Published in the Manila Standard
Today newspaper on /2012/June/18)
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