Probe needed
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A judicial investigative body should really look into the report of an alleged extortion attempt by a Pasay City Regional Trial Court (RTC) that handled and decided on the just compensation awarded to the Philippine International Airport Terminal Co. (Piatco) where it was found that the Supreme Court (SC)--ordered technical evaluation commission’s Final Report’s recommendation to the court on just compensation appeared to have been ignored by the hearing judge as the amount the judge awarded Piatco was nowhere near the amount the three-man commission had recommended to the judge.
From the commission’s signed Final Report that was submitted to the judge, which was obtained by the Tribune, there was no such amount of $176 million that was recommended but awarded anyway by the judge to the consortium. In fact, this amount was the earlier reported amount that the Solicitor-General had announced it was willing to pay Piatco as reimbursement for the government’s expropriation of the Ninoy Aquino International Airport 3 (NAIA-3)..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20110705com1.html
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