CALLS $50M FEES TO LAWYERS A ‘MISSTATEMENT’
Noy defiant, won’t return NAIA 3 to owners
By Aytch S. de la Cruz 01/04/2011The Aquino government has no plans to give back to the owners and operators of the controversial Ninoy Aquino International Airport Terminal 3 (NAIA-3) its facilities, thus defying the final decision handed out by an Ad Hoc Committee in Washington which case was lost by the Philippine government and its foreign and local lawyers.
President Aquino, in a text message sent to the Tribune, called the information contained in the Tribune report as “misimpressions,” including the assertion that the lawyers who represented the government in this case had misused the $50-million amount paid to them for their legal services, but had the matter referred to Executive Secretary Paquito Ochoa Jr.
But a source from Philippine International Air Terminal Co. (Piatco) said it is the President who appears to suffer from “misimpressions” and challenged Malacañang to check on the Commission on Audit’s (CoA) records where it will definitely show that the Manila International Airport Authority (MIAA) funded the $50 million legal fees, which were in turn received by the government lawyers, among whom were retired Justice Florentino Feliciano and then lawyer Lourdes Sereno, now an associate justice who was rewarded with the high court post by Aquino who claimed it was she who had won in the Piatco ICC case against government..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/headlines/20110104hed1.html
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