BY JOMAR CANLAS - The Manila Times Tuesday, 02 March 2010 00:00
A former legal adviser and close associate of Mayor Alfredo Lim of Manila has charged the mayor, Vice Mayor Isko Moreno, the city councilors and several city hall officials before the Office of the Ombudsman for the alleged rigged sale of a property that is now owned by business tycoon Lucio Tan.
In a 24-page complaint-affidavit, former Lim ally and lawyer Reynaldo Bagatsing said the mayor and the other respondents allegedly committed criminal acts when they disposed of the property in a rigged bidding after passing City Council Resolution 176 Series of 2008 which “authorized the City Mayor Alfredo Lim to enter into a negotiated sale of the property of the City of Manila.”
The property is the Century Park Hotel which stands on a land measuring 45,680, which Bagatsing said could have easily fetched P3 billion.
“The use of the word ‘negotiated’ in the aforementioned City Council Resolution is an indication of unlawful and nefarious intent of the respondents to defraud the City of Manila. The word ‘negotiated sale’ provides a blanket authority to respondent Mayor Alfredo Lim to negotiate the sale of the aforementioned properties with intent to do away with applicable laws on public bidding,” Bagatsing’s complaint stated.
He added that the respondents be charged for violating section 3e and g of Republic Act 3019, or the Anti-Graft and Corrupt Practices Act for causing undue injury to the city government and to private bidders of the property.
Besides Lim and Moreno, or Francisco Dumagoso in real life, also included in the charge sheet were Bids and Awards Committee (BAC) Chairman and Secretary to the Mayor Rafaelito Garayblas, BAC members Lourdes Manlulu, Thelma Perez, Alicia Moscaya, Roberto Amores, Racquel Acosta and Ronald Siojo.
20 councilors charged
The councilors who were charged were Moises Lim, Erick Ian Nieva, Arlene Koa, Ernesto Dionisio Jr., Carlo Lopez, Rolando Valeriano, Ernesto Isip Jr., Yul Servo (John Martin Nieto in real life), Maira Sheila Lacuna Pangan, Luisito Chua, Edward Maceda, Victoriano Melendez, Roderick Valbuena, Raymundo Yupangco, Josefina Siscar, Ernesto Rivera, Danilo Victor Lacuna, Luciano Veloso, Philip Lacuna and Russel Ibay.
Also named in the charge sheet was lawyer Melissa Saez Co who represented Maranaw Hotels and Restaurant Corp., which is owned by Tan, in the bidding of the property.
All the respondents were also charged for violating the Local Government Code for giving undue preference to a private party and entering into a contract without the benefit of public bidding.
A former legal adviser and close associate of Mayor Alfredo Lim of Manila has charged the mayor, Vice Mayor Isko Moreno, the city councilors and several city hall officials before the Office of the Ombudsman for the alleged rigged sale of a property that is now owned by business tycoon Lucio Tan.
In a 24-page complaint-affidavit, former Lim ally and lawyer Reynaldo Bagatsing said the mayor and the other respondents allegedly committed criminal acts when they disposed of the property in a rigged bidding after passing City Council Resolution 176 Series of 2008 which “authorized the City Mayor Alfredo Lim to enter into a negotiated sale of the property of the City of Manila.”
The property is the Century Park Hotel which stands on a land measuring 45,680, which Bagatsing said could have easily fetched P3 billion.
“The use of the word ‘negotiated’ in the aforementioned City Council Resolution is an indication of unlawful and nefarious intent of the respondents to defraud the City of Manila. The word ‘negotiated sale’ provides a blanket authority to respondent Mayor Alfredo Lim to negotiate the sale of the aforementioned properties with intent to do away with applicable laws on public bidding,” Bagatsing’s complaint stated.
He added that the respondents be charged for violating section 3e and g of Republic Act 3019, or the Anti-Graft and Corrupt Practices Act for causing undue injury to the city government and to private bidders of the property.
Besides Lim and Moreno, or Francisco Dumagoso in real life, also included in the charge sheet were Bids and Awards Committee (BAC) Chairman and Secretary to the Mayor Rafaelito Garayblas, BAC members Lourdes Manlulu, Thelma Perez, Alicia Moscaya, Roberto Amores, Racquel Acosta and Ronald Siojo.
20 councilors charged
The councilors who were charged were Moises Lim, Erick Ian Nieva, Arlene Koa, Ernesto Dionisio Jr., Carlo Lopez, Rolando Valeriano, Ernesto Isip Jr., Yul Servo (John Martin Nieto in real life), Maira Sheila Lacuna Pangan, Luisito Chua, Edward Maceda, Victoriano Melendez, Roderick Valbuena, Raymundo Yupangco, Josefina Siscar, Ernesto Rivera, Danilo Victor Lacuna, Luciano Veloso, Philip Lacuna and Russel Ibay.
Also named in the charge sheet was lawyer Melissa Saez Co who represented Maranaw Hotels and Restaurant Corp., which is owned by Tan, in the bidding of the property.
All the respondents were also charged for violating the Local Government Code for giving undue preference to a private party and entering into a contract without the benefit of public bidding.
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