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September 15th, 2009 03:16 PM #31
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September 15th, 2009 05:02 PM #32
Junggoy speech is a dud. All praise to dear daddy. Only thing he can fault Ping with are "walang utang na loob" and a political user...
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September 16th, 2009 03:14 AM #34Sayang di umiyak si Jinggoy, ang ganda pa naman ng form ng mukha nya pag umiiyak
Sana matuluyan na tong si Erap at hindi na special treatment. Kahit magka-aircon pa sya sa kulungan basta hindi na bahay.
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September 16th, 2009 03:21 AM #35from: www.inquirer.net
[SIZE="3"]Estrada bullied me, says Yuchengco[/SIZE]
Tycoon confirms coercion in PLDT deal
Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 01:34:00 09/16/2009
MANILA, Philippines—Chinese-Filipino tycoon Alfonso Yuchengco Tuesday confirmed that he was threatened and intimidated into selling his stake in Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co. (PLDT), the country’s largest telecommunications firm, to the group of businessman Manuel Pangilinan 11 years ago.
His statement lent credence to the exposé made by Sen. Panfilo Lacson the other day about the alleged illegal activities committed by Joseph Estrada during his presidency.
Calling Lacson a “liar,” Estrada said on Monday that the allegations against him were not true.
An Inquirer source with knowledge of the deal and of the harassment of the Yuchengco family Tuesday said that the sale of the Yuchengco shares
was “cooked up” by businessman Mark Jimenez and that Estrada was “supposed to get P2 billion” from it.
Estrada called Jimenez a “corporate genius” for packaging the $750-million takeover of PLDT by the Hong Kong-based First Pacific Co., described as the “deal of the century.” Jimenez has denied reports that he received $50 million in commission.
The source said that when Yuchengco initially refused to sell, agents of a presidential task force appeared at the headquarters of Rizal Commercial Banking Corp. (RCBC), a universal bank owned and controlled by the Yuchengcos, to try and arrest one of Yuchengco’s sons, who was working at the bank.
Armalites, ambassador
At about the same time, men armed with Armalites and accompanied by “a Filipino ambassador,” also went to see the elder Yuchengco, who served as ambassador to China and Japan, in his office “as an added incentive,” said the source, who asked not to be named for his safety.
The source said Yuchengco finally agreed to the deal and the men who had threatened to arrest his son “disappeared (and) never came back.”
In a statement disseminated via e-mail, Yuchengco, chair of the Yuchengco group of companies, attested to the accuracy of Lacson’s statements on the circumstances surrounding the controversial takeover of PLDT in 1998 by First Pacific.
“I confirm the statements made by Sen. Panfilo Lacson in his privilege speech relating to my 7.75 percent PTIC holdings, equivalent to 2,017,650 PLDT common shares,” the statement read.
Sheer intimidation
“These shares were taken from me in 1998 through sheer intimidation and serious threat to my businesses, myself and my family,” it added. PTIC at the time held the biggest single block at 21 percent of the telephone giant.
Confusion initially attended the dissemination of the statement as it was released by lawyers of a firm who said they represented Yuchengco in this particular issue.
No direct confirmation could be obtained from the tycoon himself to validate the statement attributed to him, but a ranking official of the Yuchengco group who requested anonymity confirmed that the statement had indeed been authorized and issued by the group’s chair.
In a privilege speech, Lacson said on Monday that PLDT was taken over by the group of Pangilinan—who managed First Pacific of Indonesia’s Salim family—with the help of Estrada’s shakedown of Yuchengco, who then controlled a small but important block of PLDT shares.
Trumped-up drug charges
Lacson said Estrada had used the Philippine National Police without his knowledge to harass Yuchengco’s son Tito “with threat of arrest on some trumped-up drug charges to force his father, Mr. Yuchengco, to sell.”
“In August 2008, in the early part of Mr. Estrada’s abbreviated presidency, Mr. Alfonso Yuchengco was pressured to sign the conveyance of his 7.75 percent PTIC (Philippine Telecommunications Investment Corp.) holdings, equivalent to 18,720 shares to Metro Pacific, represented by Manuel Pangilinan,” Lacson said.
He said these PTIC holdings corresponded to 2,017,650 PLDT common shares.
Before the deal with Yuchengco, First Pacific had finalized the sales agreement for 47 percent of PTIC—44 percent from the Cojuangco family and 3 percent from Antonio Meer.
First Pacific could not touch the balance of 46 percent of PTIC because it was owned by Prime Holdings Inc., a shell company owned by the Marcoses, which was being recovered by the government. PTIC owns 26 percent of PLDT’s outstanding common shares.
In his privilege speech, Lacson said he learned later that Yuchengco was “pressed to sign a waiver of his right of first refusal over the PTIC shares of the Cojuangco-Meer group.”
Match First Pacific offer
Yuchengco earlier reportedly offered to match or top the First Pacific offer to buy the 9.6-percent stake of Antonio “Tonyboy” Cojuangco, then PLDT president.
Had Yuchengco not sold his stake and exercised his right of first refusal, First Pacific could not have controlled PLDT.
First Pacific announced in November 1998 that it had taken over the management of PLDT after acquiring a 17.2-percent stake in the telephone giant for P29.7 billion. Three months later, Pangilinan said he had just invested $750 million in PLDT for that stake.
Aboveboard
Pangilinan’s lawyer, Ray Espinosa, said after Lacson’s privilege speech that the First Pacific Group’s takeover of PLDT was “aboveboard.”
First Pacific, through its Philippine holding firm Metro Pacific Investments Corp., has since expanded to power and water utilities (Meralco and Maynilad), tollways (North Luzon Expressway and Skyway), port services (Manila North Harbor) and health care (Medical Doctors Inc. [owner and operator of Makati Medical Center], Davao Doctors Hospital, and Colinas Verdes Hospital Management Corp. [operator of Cardinal Santos Medical Center]).
Elated
Lacson was elated that Yuchengco confirmed his allegation against Estrada that he had bullied the latter to sell his PLDT stake to an Estrada crony.
Lacson said Yuchengco’s statement only showed that he was telling the truth and Estrada was lying.
“So who is lying now if Al Yuchengco said he was intimidated so that he would be forced to sell his stake?” Lacson told reporters a few minutes before Estrada’s son, Senate President Pro Tempore Jinggoy Estrada, delivered a privilege speech against the senator.
Abroad
Asked whether he informed Yuchengco beforehand about his privilege speech on the businessman’s experience, Lacson said he had no direct contact with the latter.
“I know he’s not here. He’s abroad,” Lacson said of Yuchengco.
Lacson, a Philippine National Police chief during the Estrada administration, urged the former President to “surrender” and to tell the truth.
P20-M check from Pangilinan
A P20-million check that Pangilinan supposedly paid as bribe to Estrada was one of the checks deposited in the Jose Velarde bank account.
After the Edsa II people power revolt in 2001 that toppled Estrada, one of the cases filed with the Sandiganbayan anti-graft court against him included Pangilinan as a co-accused.
The check that Pangilinan allegedly issued to Estrada was one of 67 checks that were deposited in Estrada’s Jose Velarde account.
Pangilinan reportedly acknowledged issuing the check to Estrada in November 1998 as financial support to Estrada’s new political party for the 2001 general elections.
The Sandiganbayan found Estrada guilty of plunder and sentenced him to life in September 2007. President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo pardoned him the following month.
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September 16th, 2009 08:01 AM #36
Can the Yuchengcos regain control of PLDT since they sold their shares under duress? From what I saw last night in Bandila, Erap seem to point the finger at Mark Jimenez.
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September 16th, 2009 08:36 AM #37
bwaha.. asa pang makulong sa tunay na bilangguan si erap! dapat magsama sila! hehe...
justice to dacer and corbito! just for once!
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September 16th, 2009 08:49 AM #38
Yuchengco? the owner of the pacific plans that swindled the money of their plan holders....next please.
kettle....
pot.....
black....
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