Piatco: Raps part of past acts 01/23/2011

AQUINO FAILS TO SUSTAIN BELIEF IN CHANGE

Piatco: Raps part of past acts

01/23/2011
The local partner in the consortium that built the expropriated Terminal 3 of the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) Philippine International Air Terminals Co. Inc. (Piatco) said the decision of the Department of Justice (DoJ) to file charges against it and its German partner Fraport AG for alleged violation of the anti-dummy law did not help the administration of President Aquino to “create and sustain belief in its vow to be different from the past administration.”

Piatco, in a press statement, said it views with the gravest concern the DoJ’s decision, adding it was a disappointing move by the Aquino government.

“Having suffered tormenting harassment from the highest officials of government for the past nine years, Piatco and its stockholders, whose only fault (on hindsight, they now realize) was to respond to the invitation of the government to fund the construction of a modern international airport terminal, view this latest move (as part of) a long series of government’s unjust and unwarranted acts of persecution which are truly unbearable, undemocratic and inhuman,” the statement read.

It said a number of Piatco and Fraport officers, along with some government officials who voted in conscience to award the NAIA 3 contract to Piatco, had faced charges before the Sandiganbayan and other courts for alleged corrupt acts and other offenses. “None was proven, and all have to date already been dismissed,” it added..... MORE

Source:  The Daily Tribune

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