Appeals court freezes assets of Ampatuan clan
By Benjamin B. Pulta 06/08/2011More than a year and a half after the gruesome Maguindanao massacre, the government finally secured yesterday a freeze order on the assets of the Ampatuan political clan whose members are facing multiple indictments for the murder of 58 individuals.
The Court of Appeals (CA) issued the 20-day freeze order covering government agencies, banking institutions suspected of having been used by the Ampatuans to hide more than P1 billion.
In a 23-page decision by Associate Justice Celia Librea-Leagogo, the CA’s Special Second Division granted the petition filed by the Anti-Money Laundering Council (AMLC) for the issuance of a freeze order against 28 members of the Ampatuan clan led by its patriarch Datu Andal Ampatuan Sr., former Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) Gov. Zaldy Putu Ampatuan and several others.
Concurring with the ruling were Associate Justices Bienvenido Reyes and Elihu Ybañez..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/metro/20110608met1.html
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