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Extortion, Inc. FRONTLINE Ninez Cacho-Olivares 01/24/2011

Monday, January 24, 2011

Extortion, Inc.

FRONTLINE
Ninez Cacho-Olivares
01/24/2011
Filing a breach of the Anti-Dummy Law charge against the executives of the consortium that built the airport Terminal 3, Malacañang said over the weekend, that this would serve to put a closure to the controversy swirling over the Philippine government ad the Philippine International Air Terminals Co. Inc. (Piatco) and its German investor Fraport AG (Fraport).

Come again? Filing a case against Piatco executives brings closure to a decade long controversy initiated by the Philippine government?

How on earth can ordering the filing of the case even be regarded by the Noynoy government as closure, especially since a number of Piatco and Fraport officers had already faced charges before the Sandiganbayan and other courts for alleged corrupt acts and other offenses, with none proven, and all have to date already been dismissed.

For Noynoy, charging a person or persons is already closure? How dumb can this administration be?.... MORE

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