Solon mulls impeachment raps against Justice Sereno
By Charlie V. Manalo 01/25/2012Samar Rep. Ben Evardone yesterday bared that he is considering filing an impeachment case against Supreme Court Junior Associate Justice Lourdes Sereno, the first appointee to the high court of President Aquino, if he can be presented evidence against Sereno showing that she failed to state her huge P25 million legal fees as the Philippine government’s lawyer in the arbitration cases in the International Chamber of Commerce court, both in Singapore and Washington, in her Statement of Assets Liabilities, Networth (SALn).
In her summary of her SALn, which she had submitted earlier, when there was pressure from the House of Representatives through the House prosecutors for impeached Chief Justice Renato Corona to bare his SALn, Sereno’s
networth of some P17 million appeared to be less than what he had earned from her professional fees as one of the Philippine government’s lawyers in arbitrating the cases concerning the Philippine International Airport Terminals Co. (Piatco) in the ICCin the case of Fraport AG, on the Ninoy Aquino International Airport Terminal lll (NAIA-3) controversy..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
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