The Corona Impeachment Trial: Mortgaged properties

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On Thursday, the House prosecution panel through Iloilo Rep. Niel Tupas Jr., lead House counsel, and Mario Bautista, lead private prosecutor, asked the Senate impeachment court to subpoena the Corona couple, their two children and son-in-law, as well as the documents pertaining to the 45 properties.

Attached to the prosecution’s request was a letter dated Jan. 10 from LRA Administrator Eulalio Diaz III and sent to Tupas. It contained the numbers of the documents “relative to the real estate properties registered in the name of Renato Corona et al.”

Of the 45, three were listed in the name of “National Housing Authority, Burgundy Realty Corp. and Ismael Mathay Jr. et al.”

A source privy to the prosecution panel’s evidence said this could be because the properties were mortgaged.

But Marikina Rep. Romero Quimbo said the three titles could be traced back to the Coronas. He said this was why the titles still appeared on the LRA list.

All the supposed properties of the Corona family will be used in prosecuting Article 2 of the impeachment complaint, which concerns Corona’s SALN.

The prosecution panel had earlier said that Corona’s last SALN was in 2002, and that this could mean possible unexplained wealth.

Article 2 will be handled by Tupas, a former junior partner of Belo Gozon Elma Asuncion & Lucila offices; Pangasinan Rep. Marilyn Primicias-Aggabas, a former trial lawyer; and Dasmariñas City Rep. Elpidio Barzaga Jr., a practicing certified public accountant, lawyer and bar reviewer in civil law in 1983-1992, before he ran for Congress in 2007.

 

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