Re: piatco judge who ruled againts gma assassinated in bacoor cavite

Bastards.

"mercury morris" <sylviapatis@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Judge who ruled in favor of PIATCo ambushed, dead
>
> (UPDATE) -- A JUDGE who ordered the government to pay the builders of
> the Ninoy Aquino International Airport Terminal 3 was killed in an
> ambush in Bacoor town, Cavite province, some 17 kilometers south of
> Manila on Saturday.
> At around 12:45 p.m., two unidentified suspects on board a motorcycle
> shot the 53-year-old Judge Henrick Gingoyon of the Pasay City regional
> trial court branch 117 while he was walking toward his house in
> Soldier's Hills Village, Molino 6, said Senior Superintendent
> Benjardi Mantele, Cavite provincial police commander.
>
> Gingoyon was pronounced dead on arrival at a hospital in nearby Imus
> town, Mantele told INQ7.net in a text message.
>
> Chief Inspector Elpidio Nartatez, deputy chief of the Bacoor police,
> said the judge suffered four gunshot wounds on his body and was
> declared dead on arrival at the Imus General Hospital.
>
> In January, Gingoyon ordered the government to pay 62.3 million pesos
> as initial payment to the Philippine International Air Terminals
>
> Co. (PIATCo), the consortium of German company Fraport AG and its
> Filipino partners that built a 650-million-dollar terminal in Manila
> under a deal with the government in 1998, before it could take over the
> NAIA-3.
>
> Earlier this month, the Supreme Court upheld Gingoyon's ruling and
> ordered the government to pay PIATCo a total of three billion pesos for
> constructing the said airport.
>
> Shortly after she came into power, President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
> rescinded the government's contract with PIATCo in November 2002 due to
> alleged onerous provisions in the deal, prompting the company to seek
> compensation before local and foreign courts.
>
>
> The government has since taken over the terminal.
>
> Fraport AG had demanded compensation of 465 million dollars, and the
> case is currently subject to international arbitration. It is not clear
> how the Supreme Court decision would affect that case.
>
> Justice Artemio Panganiban condemned Gingoyon's killing "in the
> strongest possible manner" and urged the police to immediately arrest
> those responsible for "this cowardly deed."
>
> "This is the Piatco judge. We are concerned that there could be
> something deeper," he said.
>
> Panganiban also urged the police to put extra effort in solving cases
> of murdered members of the judiciary.
>
> "We ask the police to redouble its efforts in solving other cases of
> murdered judges," he added.
>
> Meanwhile, Justice Secretary Raul Gonzalez said he will order the
> National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) to assist the police in
> identifying the killers of Gingoyon.
>
> "Normally, it is the basic responsibility of the police, the Cavite
> police on this case. (But) on cases as important as this, I think
> it's best that there is an immediate cooperation of the police," he
> told INQ7.net.
>
> With reports from Marlon Ramos,
>


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