No Peping-Corona meet over HLI case, claims SC
By Benjamin B. Pulta 07/22/2010 Amid reports that a high profile one-on-one meeting between Chief Justice Renato Corona and Jose “Peping” Cojuangco Jr., who is a member of President Aquino’s clan, took place, a Supreme Court (SC) official, nevertheless, said there is no basis for Corona to inhibit himself from taking part in the deliberation on the pending SC case involving the sprawling Aquino-Cojuangco estate Hacienda Luisita as Court Administrator Midas Marquez asserted that the supposed meeting never took place. “It is not true at all and no such meeting took place, Chief Justice Corona does not know Mr. Cojuangco personally and it is unfortunate that something is being invented,” Marquez told reporters. A report by the newsmagazine Newsbreak related that Corona and Cojuangco met at a house in Dasmariñas Village, Makati City. Cojuangco is the uncle of the President and an officer of Tarlac Development Corp. (Tadeco) which owns 60 percent of Hacienda Luisita. “This will have to stop. I don’t see this as basis for the chief justice to inhibit himself from the (Luisita) case.” Marquez said, adding that the report “erodes confidence in our courts.” However while Marquez denied that the Dasmariñas house meeting took place, the court spokesman conceded that Corona had met Cojuangco in public functions where they were both invited as guests. Source: The Daily Tribune URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/headlines/20100722hed4.html |
0 comments
Post a Comment