Return of the PEA-Amari boy(s)
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| Jonathan De la Cruz |
One item which caught the public eye in the ongoing high profile dogfight between CamSur Gov. LRay Villafuerte and his erstwhile comrades-in-arms, Deputy Speaker Noli Fuentebella and the three other co-sponsors of the proposed Nueva Camarines province, namely, LRay’s father and predecessor, Rep. Louie Villafuerte and Representatives Nonoy Andaya and Dato Arroyo, was the injection of businessman George Trivino of PEA-Amari fame in the debate recently.
In his latest blast, Gov. LRay propped up Trivino, a known ‘90s wheeler dealer, as the “poster boy” of what awaits the new province under the Fuentebellas. Trivino, a.k.a. Uy Han Kiat or George Uy, is listed as the super majority owner (225000 shares out of a total of 250000 outstanding stock) of the Caramoan Dam HydroElectric Power Corporation (CDHPC) with an authorized capitalization of P100 million. This deal is claimed to have the tacit approval of the Fuentebella family whose area of influence includes the town of Caramoan, a charge which has been vehemently denied. Of course, it is very possible that Trivino is doing this on his own being himself an adopted son of CamSur having taken one of the province’s political patriarchs, the late Gov. Juan Trivino, as his godfather. But no matter..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20111107com4.html
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very very interesting. eh si ramos tabako mismo, magkano ang nakulimbat?
"“The pay offs that were made to several officials in an effort to hush up the investigation of the transaction also remain carefully cloaked in secrecy... Our own investigation shows that from 1995 to 1997, as much as P3 billion in bribes and commissions was paid by Amari to a cast of brokers, government bureaucrats and politicians, making this the single biggest scam in memory, dwarfing the amounts made in single transactions by the most avaricious of Marcos cronies.”"
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