Sanlakas plans to file plunder charges vs Villar
By Nikko Dizon
Philippine Daily Inquirer

MANILA, Philippines—The militant group Sanlakas Thursday said it was considering filing plunder charges against Sen. Manuel Villar, Nacionalista Party standard-bearer, because of a complaint filed by his former lawyer [...]]]> Tweet

Sanlakas plans to file plunder charges vs Villar
By Nikko Dizon
Philippine Daily Inquirer

The ProPinoy team was able to acquire this from the affected families of San Rafael Village. We won’t reveal the identity of the persons who gave this in order to protect them.

Kung ano ang inilalahad nitong San Rafael Village TCT (Transfer Certificate of Title):

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The ProPinoy team was able to acquire this from the affected families of San Rafael Village. We won’t reveal the identity of the persons who gave this in order to protect them.

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Kung ano ang inilalahad nitong San Rafael Village TCT (Transfer Certificate of Title):

1.       Bago sa taong 1962, bumili ang mga Villar ng 560 sq.m. ng mamahaling lote sa San Rafael Village, lugar kung saan ang mga may-kayang pamilya na may negosyo sa pook ng Tondo-Navotas ay nagpapatayo ng bahay at tumitira.

2.       Isinasaad sa titulo (Transfer Certificate of Title) ng naturang pag-aari na nailipat ito nuong taong 1964, subalit pinatutunayan sa Sertipiko ng Pagkamatay (Death Certificate) ni Danny Villar na naninirahan na sila rito nuon pang 1962.

3.       Base sa presyuhan sa taong 2009, ang P16,000 halaga ng sangla sa GSIS na nakatala sa TCT – na hindi nangangahulugang siya nang presyo nitong dalawang 280 sq.m. na lote – ay nagkakahalaga na ngayon ng P1,140,000.00.  Ipalagay nang ang presyo nga ay P16,000, ang halaga ng bawat metro kuwadrado nito ay lumalabas na P28.57.  (Sa La Vista ni Mike Arroyo, ang bentahan sa lote bawat metro kuwadrado ay P50, nuong taong 1964.)  Sinasabi ng mga taong pamilyar sa naturang subdivision na ang halaga ngayon ng bawat metro kuwadrado roon ay nasa mababang P5,000 hanggang sa mataas na P10,000.

4.       Sabi ni Jun Borres, ang kasalukuyang may-ari nitong dalawang lote na ginagamit naman niya para sa kanyang upisina – ang Jumbo Fishing Company – may nakatayo nang isa’t kalahating palapag na bahay-gusali rito, nang mabili nila ito nuong taong 1987.  Ang unang palapag ay yari sa semento, samantalang ang itaas naman ay gawa sa kahoy, ang karaniwang gamit sa mga bahay pang-mayaman nuong mga taong 1960s.

Ang kahulugan ng pagiging may-ari ng lote’t bahay sa San Rafael Village:

1.       Dagdag pa sa mga alam nang impormasyon tungkol kay Manny Villar, hindi maaaring ituring na mahirap ang kanyang pamilya, dahil nakapanirahan sila sa San Rafael Village nuong 1962, o maaga pa rito.  Ang kanyang ina ay isang “dealer”, o negosyante, ng isda sa Divisoria, hindi isang tindera lamang, gaya ng ibig niyang palabasin.  Para sa isang pamilyang binubuo ng 11 katao, nakakakain silang lahat ng “corned beef”, gaya ng kanyang ipinahayag sa isa niyang naunang anunsiyo sa TV.  Ang kanyang ama ay isang upisyal sa gubyerno.  Nakapag-aral si Manny Villar sa mga pribadong eskuwelahan, sa Holy Child Catholic School para sa elementarya, at Mapua Institute of Technology para sa kanyang high school.  Ang tunay na mga mahihirap ay nakakatapak lamang sa mga paaralang pampubliko.

2.       Ang pinagsamang kita o sahod ng mga magulang ay maituturing na malaki, para sila’y makabili nitong pag-aari sa San Rafael Village – kung saan ang lawak nito ay nagsasaad lamang ng taglay nilang sapat na yaman.  Ang mga tunay na mahihirap ay nakabibili lamang ng maliit pa sa 100 sq. m. na lote.  At pihado ring malaki nga ang kita ng ama ni Villar para ito makautang sa gobyerno ng P16,000.  Nuong 1962, ang mga matataas na eksekiyutibo sa malalaking kumpanya ay sumasahod ng mga P2,000 kada buwan.

Kung ano ang inihahayag ng Death Certificate (Sertipiko ng Pagkamatay) ni Danny B. Villar:

1.       Isang malaking kabulaanan ang sinasabing namatay si Danny sapagkat sila ay naghihirap daw (Villar PANATA TV ad: “Nakaranas na ba kayong…mamatayan ng kapatid dahil wala kang perang pangpagamot?”) at ‘di kayang tustusan ang pangangailangang pangkalusugan nito.  Sa death certificate ni Danny, ang nabanggit na tirahan nang mamatay ito ay iyong pag-aari sa San Rafael Village.

2.       Ang MALAKING KASINUNGALINGAN na iyon ay lalo pang pinalala ng pangyayaring 13 araw na ginagamot sa FEU Hospital itong si Danny, kung saan pagkatapos, ito ay pumanaw rin sa edad na 3 taon at 8 buwan. Kung talagang mahirap sila, sa PGH (Phil. General Hospital) sana ang naaangkop na ospital na pinagdalhan kay Danny.  Mahusay at sapat na pag-aalagang medical ang talagang ibinigay sa kanya.  Ang FEU Hospital ang isa sa mga pangunahing ospital noong 1962, bago pa man nagsulputan ang Manila Doctors’ Hospital, Makati Medical Center at St. Luke’s.

3.       Ang ikinamatay ni Danny ay “CARDIAC and RESPIRATORY FAILURE” (PAGPALYA NG PUSO AT BAGA) resulta ng mga KUMPLIKASYON SA LEUKEMIA.  Noong 1962, hindi pa nailalapat ang pamamaraang paggamot na “bone marrow transplantation” at “chemotherapy” kung kaya’t mayaman man o mahirap, tiyak ang pagkamatay ng sinumang sapitan ng sakit na leukemia.

4.       Nang mamatay si Danny, dinala ang mga labi niya sa FUNERARIA PAZ – itinuturing na isa sa mga pangunahing kumpanya, noon at magpahanggang ngayon, na nagbibigay ng de-klaseng serbisyong pagburol at libing ng mga pumanaw.  Dahil dito, lalo pang pinabubulaanan ang MALAKING KASINUNGALINGAN ni Manny Villar na namatay si Danny sa dahilang wala silang salaping pantustos sa pagpapagaling sa kanya.

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VILLAR TOOK OUR LAND – TRIBESMEN
by People’s Journal

Wednesday, 17 March 2010 19:51

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VILLAR TOOK OUR LAND – TRIBESMEN
by People’s Journal

Wednesday, 17 March 2010 19:51

DUMAGAT tribesmen who accused Sen. Manny Villar of grabbing their ancestral lands yesterday held a protest rally in front of the Central Bank and the Laurel Mansion in Mandaluyong City that serves as the campaign headquarters of the Nacionalista Party.

After a long march from Norzagaray, Bulacan to Metro Manila, the farmers claimed that they lost their lands due to the manipulative acts of Villar, presidential bet of the NP.

They picketed in front of the Central Bank to protest the continued disregard by concerned government offices especially the Office of the Ombudsman and Central Bank of the cases they filed against Villar and his wife Cynthia.

“Nananawagan kami para sa mabilis at agarang pag-resolba ng Office of the Ombudsman hinggil sa isinampa naming kaso laban kay Sen.Villar, sa kanyang asawa na si Cynthia at iba pa nilang mga kasapakat sa pang-aagaw sa aming mga minanang lupain,” said Valentino Amador, one of the protest leaders.

On Tuesday, the victims marched from the Department of Agrarian Reform to the Office of the Ombudsman where they demanded immediate resolution of the complaints that they filed against Villar.

They then went to the offices of broadcast giants Channel 2 and 7 to solicit their support for their fight. Afterwards, they went to the NP headquarters to denounce Villar.

They decided to continue their protest march to the Central Bank because it is where Villar and his group reportedly mortgaged their 480 hectares land for P1.5 billion.

They said that they will continue to hold a picket rally in front of CB until they receive concrete commitment and support from the agency.

“Lumalabas kasi na walang pakialam ang Central bank sa aming sinapit at ang importante sa kanila ay ang perang kinita nila bunga ng mapanlinlang na transaksyon na pinasok sa kanila ni Villar,” explained Sergio Cruz, a chieftain of the Dumagat tribe.

The Capitol Development Bank which was owned by the Villar couple and Manila Brickworks, Inc. conspired to mortgage the victims’ properties before the CB using spurious papers and documents.

However, Villar and his group however failed to pay the loans, thus, BSP foreclosed the mortgage and finally acquired the lands in a public auction.

At the time the loans were contracted, Villar was the Speaker of the House of Representatives.

Gina Jarvina, one of the aggrieved landowners, said they learned about the manipulative acts of the Villars when BSP personnel visited their area.

Jarvina and Amador filed plunder and graft complaints against the Villars and their accomplices before the Office of the Ombudsman on Sept. 26, 2008. The cases remain pending.

San Pedro
By Lito Banayo
Malaya

HOW could a piece of property sequestered by the Presidential Commission on Good Government (PCGG), and a lis pendens annotated upon its transfer certificate of title, land in the hands of a corporation called Crown Asia, owned and controlled [...]]]> Tweet

San Pedro
By Lito Banayo
Malaya

HOW could a piece of property sequestered by the Presidential Commission on Good Government (PCGG), and a lis pendens annotated upon its transfer certificate of title, land in the hands of a corporation called Crown Asia, owned and controlled by the so-called “brown taipan”, Manuel Villar, who wants to be president of the land?

The 2.18 hectare property is in the vicinity of a swanky golf course called TAT, before that Filipinas Golf Course, and even before that, during the Marcos years, known as Holiday Hills, in the municipality of San Pedro Laguna. It straddles the boundary of the first town of Laguna with the last city of Metro Manila, and is now connected to the South Luzon Expressway (SLEX) by an interchange, and to Las Piñas and Bacoor to a so-called Daang Reyna, which in turn connects to Daang Hari. Pretty good property, one must say.

It used to be titled to one Maximo Argana, remembered by many to be the feared and powerful mayor of Muntinglupa during the martial law years. When the dictatorship fell, the newly-created PCGG went after the unexplained wealth of Marcos, his cronies and other public officials. They went after Maximo Argana’s wealth, and this San Pedro property was one of them. Because Argana had meanwhile died, the PCGG attached an encumbrance upon the title, what is called a lis pendens, which means the property cannot be sold, leased, or otherwise encumbered while the case is pending. And up till today, that case pends before the Sandiganbayan.

Meanwhile, the informal settlers who had stayed in the property by tolerance or sufferance of the registered owner, Argana, had hoped that when the government finally got full leave of the court to confiscate the San Pedro property, they could apply for land ownership under the social justice programs of the State.

Their hopes brightened with the enactment of the Urban Dwellers Act during the Cory administration, otherwise known as the Lina Law.

But lo and behold! In the year 2000, a corporation called Crown Asia suddenly claimed ownership of the property, on the basis of a deed of sale executed between it and Capitol Bank. Both Crown Asia and Capitol are owned and controlled by the spouses Manuel and Cynthia Villar. Crown Asia, along with its sister corporations, had already acquired other properties in the vicinity, which it was then developing into medium and high-end housing projects.

How did this happen? There was a lis pendens on the property, and a check with government agencies, including the Office of the President shows that the Argana title should not and must not be the subject of a deed of sale, not even a contract of lease, for as long as the courts would not lift that lis pendens (or pendente lite, which means pending legal resolution of the case.

But apparently, Capitol Bank foreclosed the property from a certain Jose Nunez, who failed to pay a short-term loan, and made no effort whatsoever to restructure or re-schedule the loan, as most are wont to do, but instead, immediately had his property foreclosed by the Villar bank. And the Villar’s Capitol Bank turns around and sells the property also immediately, to Crown Asia. Seems like this is a pattern, a modus operandi of the Villar’s interlocking corporations.

In 2002, Villar’s Crown Asia posted security guards and then ordered demolition of the settler’s houses. The demolition squad succeeded in destroying 30 houses and led to the killing of Quirico “Rico” de los Santos, a leader of the neighborhood association of poor informal dwellers called ironically, Paradise Park. But the informal settlers resisted and they remain there to this day, their Paradise Park Neighborhood Association knocking from one government agency door to another, hoping to seek justice and their urban dwellers’ rights under the laws of the benighted land. There are now some 205 family houses walled inside the 2.18 hectare property, with no basic services such as electrical connections and water. They have to walk to buy expensive retailed water and inter-connect or share one electricity source. Guards of the neighboring walled subdivision, armed with shotguns strictly monitor their movements. They are not allowed to bring in construction materials even to repair their rickety dwellings.

Is this another racket where fake titles are produced surreptitiously, and prey on helpless landowners, such as the Dumagat and Remontado farmers in Norzagaray, Bulacan (read our articles of February 25 and 27, Malaya)? In Norzagaray, the titles issued during the Japanese occupation, which under Commonwealth Act 141, as amended, have been declared null and void, were “foreclosed” by Capitol Bank, and then paid in kind to Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas which had earlier issued an emergency loan to the said Villar-owned bank of 1.5 billion pesos.

In San Pedro, property encumbered in temporary favor of the Republic of the Philippines, pending resolution of a sequestration case, is suddenly claimed by a family corporation which “bought” the property from the same family-owned bank, which in turn foreclosed the same from a person, fictitious or real, who “borrowed” a short-term loan and “failed” to pay.

But the Paradise Park homeowners are now in mortal fear of imminent ejection, should this “poor man turned billionaire”, whose heart “bleeds for the poor”, and who makes a holy vow (panata) to end poverty (tatapusin ang kahirapan), become president. Truly, night will fall upon the lives of these poor people “squatting” on government-owned land. Because if Villarroyo succeeds with his money, and buys the presidency come May 10, 2010, with secret help from the woman who replaced the man he impeached in 2000, then the “government” and their nemesis will be one and the same.

“Mayaman na siya. Huwag na niyang agawin sa amin ang karapatan na manirahan sa lupang hindi naman kanya”, said Aling Gloria Barrameda of the Paradise Park Neighborhood Association , who along with some 40 other settlers marched and picketed the front of the historic Laurel House that Money Villarroyo bought two years ago, and from whence he launched his quest for the presidency.

The man who claims to have shared the tribulations of the poorest of the poor, who used to live in a single-room house with his entire family (but transferred as a kid later to a 560 square-meter property in San Rafael Village in Balut, built by his government employee of a father and his industrious fish merchant of a mother) and used to sleep in a narrow bench in Divisoria market (but was schooled in a Catholic parochial school where he and brood were fetched by a stainless steel owner-type jeep), and virtually mocks the toil and sacrifices of his truly industrious parents in order to propagandize alleged poverty, now sends his guards to confiscate property held by the Republic, at the expense of poor, landless settlers, one of whom was executed by his unknown security guards.

As Aling Gloria stated in poignant anger: “Sa ginagawa niya sa aming mahihirap, kasinungalingan ang sinasabi niyang siya ay para sa mahirap at siya ay may malasakit. Siya ang tunay na pasakit. Siya ang tunay na pahirap”.

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(banayo_at@yahoo.com)

Villar was never a Tondo poor boy
Philippine Daily Inquirer

THE MARCH 7 ARTICLE ON Manny Villar’s house along Moriones Street in Tondo confirmed the belief that he was never poor, never spent his Christmas on the street and never swam in a pool of [...]]]> Tweet

Villar was never a Tondo poor boy
Philippine Daily Inquirer

THE MARCH 7 ARTICLE ON Manny Villar’s house along Moriones Street in Tondo confirmed the belief that he was never poor, never spent his Christmas on the street and never swam in a pool of garbage. In the early 1960s, if you had a three-story house in a 60-square-meter lot in the business district of Tondo, you were considered an aristocrat.

Not too far from that Moriones house were shanties leading to the pier where children went to the nearby public schools for education. Such was not the case of Villar: he went to Holy Child Catholic School for his elementary education and to Mapua for high school. Coming from Moriones going to Mapua, Villar had to pass by three outstanding public high schools: Jose Abad Santos High School, Arellano High School and Teodora Agoncillo High School, and public schools in the latter part of the 1950s and 1960s were at their best.

But not for the Villar children. Because their father was a white-collar employee and they had a businesswoman for a mother, Manny and his siblings were able to study in the best private schools nearby. They had corned beef for breakfast (as told in Villar’s ad with Boy Abunda) and I am pretty sure suahe and other seafoods for lunch or dinner.

During the times that Villar claimed he was poor, his family actually belonged to the AB and upper C economic strata or the top 10 percent of the population. As in the C-5 controversy, in the conversion of agricultural land in Iloilo, in the landgrabbing of the Dumagats’ land in Norzagaray and his questionable use of socialized housing funds among many others, Villar shows a penchant for covering the truth.

I hope television’s investigative journalists can dig deeper into this so the poor people who are being used will find out the truth.

—ELEN FRANCISCO,

elefrancisco@gmail.com

NORZAGARAY CASE

1.The Petitioner here are farmers who have occupied and cultivated the land in question since 1960’s .  Some of them were descendants of Dumagats who occupied the land since time immemorial, as well as farmer-settlers who had been there since the Commonwealth.