The chief legal officer of Nacionalista Party (NP) standard-bearer Villar C5 said lawyer Restituto Mendoza has been peddling lies in his “tell-all” accounts of his stint with Villar’s real estate company. He is exacting vengeance for his dismissal.
“He is an extortionist and a congenital liar,” Ma. Nalen Rosero-Galang said.
Mendoza was dismissed from work because he attempted to blackmail Household Development Corp., a firm under the real estate conglomerate of Villar.
“And now, he is exacting vengeance after his ambition to rake in millions at the expense of Villar’s company was frustrated. He is merely hallucinating. These are just figments of his imagination,” said Rosero-Galang.
“The truth of the matter,” Rosero-Galang said, “is that the source of the report is a poisonous tree because he has evil motives and criminal intent to get back at the senator, who is running for president.”
Rosero-Galang issued this statement in reaction to ABS-CBN’s online report “How Villar built his business empire with deceit, corruption.” She said Mendoza’s pronouncements maligning the reputation of Villar are blatant lies since they are “unfounded and have no basis.”
According to Villar’s lawyer, Mendoza demanded P25 million from the senator’s company at the height of the C-5 controversy. Before his botched plan to “unjustly enrich” himself, Rosero-Galang said Mendoza became bitter when he was not appointed head of the Legal Department of Villar’s company.
She also said the truthfulness of Mendoza’s allegations is further disproved by his actuations. “While saying that he is seeking restitution for his sins of commission and omission as a former employee of Villar’s company, Mendoza is seeking for reinstatement,” she added.
Villar’s lawyer also pressed for the alleged documents and information to substantiate Mendoza’s claim that Villar companies attempted to bribe Customs officials so that they can be examined as to authenticity and strength as evidences of the allegations.
“What are those documents? Their authenticity needs to be determined. I challenge them to produce those documents,” she said.
According to Rosero-Galang, this is not the first time that Mendoza has threatened Villar. At the height of the C-5 controversy, he also attempted to offer his so-called “stories” about irregularities in Villar’s companies to Senators Panfilo Lacson and Jamby Madrigal and even to the Senate blue ribbon committee, but nobody bought his story.
“It was a different story when he approached the Liberal Party. LP would buy anything. Mendoza asked for a house for his family in exchange for the information or misinformation he supplied,” cited Rosero-Galang, who decried the one-sided report.
In the interest of fair play, she said their side on the matter should be accorded ample opportunity to be heard by the public.
She also assailed exclusion from the report of the blackmailing attempts of Mendoza against Villar despite duly executed documents to back them up.
“Being one of the major networks, we expect a more exacting observance of ethical conduct in a publishing a report. How come serious allegations of bribery, corruption among others, which are not supported by documents, were included in the report?” said Rosero-Galang.
Furthermore, she said Mendoza has no knowledge about the Masaito agreement because he never took part in its drafting and negotiation. He merely drafted a secretary’s certificate which was not even implemented.
As previously explained during the Senate hearing on the C-5 issue, the Masaito-Adelfa transaction was a valid and legal exchange of properties supported by documents that are on file at the Senate.
Rosero-Galang also questioned the documents gathered by Newsbreak which showed that Capitol Bank and Manila Brickworks “acquired possession of the ancestral lands through fraud and manipulative layering scheme.”
The lawyer asserted that all the properties transferred to Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas are covered by titles on file with the Registry of Deeds.
She also refuted the report’s claim that Manila Brickworks resurfaced in 1998 with new incorporators interlocked with those of Capitol Bank. The companies, she cited, are totally unrelated. Contrary to the report also, Capitol Bank never ceased operation, it simply changed its name to Optimum Development Bank.
Furthermore, Rosero-Galang belied allegations that Villar’s company duped Ayala Land as the companies owned by the senator do not have any unpaid or unsettled obligations with Ayala Land.
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