It seems the revelations over Chief Justice Renato Coronas alleged excessive wealth, including the list of supposed 45 titles to his properties, were the handiwork of the so-called Kaibigan, Kaklase and Kabarilan (KKK) (friends, classmates and shooting buddies) network of President Aquino.
The use of the Executive Departments resources, particularly by the presidents classmates and friends to backstop Malacaangs agenda in ousting Corona, was revealed by a source in the SC who declined to be identified, saying the recent supposed lists of documents on properties owned by Coronas family and released by the Land Registration Authority (LRA), an agency under the Department of Justice (DoJ), were done with a
lot of help from a close friend of Aquino who now heads the agency.
The LRAs present administrator Eulalio Diaz III was a classmate and close friend of the president since grade school and is part of the Ateneo Law class of 1985 along with executive secretary Paquito Ochoa and Senator Teofisto TG Guingona III.
Other members of the class include Bureau of Internal Revenue Kim Henares, Florencio Abad and Edward Serapio.
Every one knows how hard it is to transact with that agency but as it turns out its not that hard when the documents are needed for the presidents personal vendetta, the source said.
Corona earlier denounced this as a blatant attempt at a smear campaign the recent public statement of the House prosecution panel alleging no less than 45 unreported titles supposedly belonging to the magistrate.
Earlier, the CJ had scored the prosecution for the list of properties, saying that they (President Aquino and his allies) are trying to portray him as a thief, adding: I am not a thief like them.
In a statement, Corona pointed out that the list includes several titles for one and the same property, or parking slots for one and the same condominium unit.
In some cases, the titles are in the name of persons I do not even know, he added.
In others, properties belonging to my balaes (daughter-in-laws parents) are listed and claimed to be mine. There are many repetitive entries to make the list deliberately long to create a false and misleading impression about my assets, Corona complained.
As I have repeatedly declared, my SALn (Statement of Assets and Liabilities Networth) contains all the properties that I own all five of them, he said and described the list from the Land Registration Authority (LRA) enumerating 45 titles as black propaganda (meant) to poison the peoples minds.
I condemn this list of titles as a hoax, calculated to cleverly inflict maximum damage to me in the eyes of the public. By its sheer number alone, it smacks of bad faith and deception, Corona said.
I have concealed nothing. I will expose the malice and the black propaganda behind this hoax of a list from LRA at the right time and place, and accordance with the correct procedure it he Impeachment court, he stressed.
Some of the listed owners inthe LRA list requested and given to lead prosecutor Rep. Niel Tupas included in the list of properties are those that do not even carry the name of Corona or his in-laws, such as one in the name of Ismael Mathay, another in the name of Burgundy Realty Corp; another in the name of National Housing Authority. Yet another to family members of Constatino Castillo, simply because a daughter of Corona is married to a Castillo. More: A TCT in the name of Eugenia Coronado as well as a Dante Encina.
The Chief Justice also said that the impeachment proceeding is linked to the recent Supreme Court decision on the fate of the sprawling Hacienda Luisita estate in Tarlac province which is owned by the Aquino-Cojuangco clan.
That is very clear. It is the Hacienda Luisitas Supreme Court ruling that they (President Aquino, his allies and his House prosecutors) want reversed. There can be no other motive, Corona told reporters yesterday.
But I bear no grudge. What I know is how to forgive, he added. The head magistrate said his resignation is out of the question.
Corona had said his impeachment had a lot to do with the recent SC decision on the fate of the sprawling Hacienda Luisita estate in Tarlac province which is owned by the Aquino-Cojuangco clan.
That is very clear. It is the Hacienda Luisitas Supreme Court ruling that they (President Aquino, his allies and his House prosecutors) want to be reversed. There can be no other motive, Corona told reporters yesterday.
But I bear no grudge.What I know is how to forgive, he added.
Corona attended mass with his children yesterday at the Supreme Court.
The head magistrate said his resignation is out of the question.
The House prosecution panel yesterday vouched for the authenticity of the documents released by the Land Registration Authority pertaining to the 45 properties that are allegedly owned by Corona.
Marikina City Rep. Miro Quimbo said that Corona should face the issue of his alleged properties at the Senate Impeachment Court. He was reacting to a statement issued by the Chief Justice that if they find his properties, he issue a deed of donation.
The Chief Justices response evades the question of whether the properties identified are ill-gotten or not. He should answer that, said Quimbo in an interview.
Corona said he would execute a deed of donation if the prosecution can find the properties whose ownership being alleged to ne his.
But Quimbo said that Corona does not need to execute the deed of donation because the impeachment process and the existing laws will automatically forfeit his alleged properties if proven ill-gotten during the trial.
Besides, there is no need to look for the properties They have already been found: 45 of them all over Metro Manila alone! There is no need to donate because under the law, they will be forfeited anyway if it is proven that it is ill gotten. Thats why he needs to explain, Quimbo pointed out.
They failed to explain, however, why the LRA included in the list, properties that are not even in the name of Corona, but in the name of even the National Housing Authority and Burgundy Realty. Among other listed properties.
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