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Contents MEMBERS, Represented by and Through the CHAIRMAN, HON CALUYA, AGERICO UNGSON, SUSAN ROXAS, ELVIE CASTILLO, and CYNTHIA SABIDO LIMJAP, petitioners, vs. THE SENATE BLUE RIBBON COMMITTEE AND ITS Contents MEMBERS, represented by and through the CHAIRMAN, HON. Arnault v. nazareno digest................................................................WIGBERTO................................ TAÑADA, .........................respondents, JOSE 1 S. SANDEJAS, intervenor. Bengzon v senate ...................................................................................................................................... 1 Bengzon v senate digest ................................................................Bengzon,................................ Zarraga, Narciso,............................ Cudala, Pecson 7 & Bengson for Senate v. ermita ................................................................................................petitioners. ......................................... 7 Senate v. ermita digest .............................................................................................................................. 9 In re: sabio ................................................................................................Balgos & Perez................................ for intervening petitioner................ 10 In re: sabio digest .................................................................................................................................... 18 Eddie Tamondong and Antonio T. Tagaro for respondents. Brillantes v. comelec ............................................................................................................................... 18 Brillantes v. comelec digest .................................................................................................................... 31 Bayani v. Zamora .................................................................................................................................... 32 Bayani v. Zamora digest ................................................................PADILLA,................................ J.:p ......................... 41 Estrada v. dessierto digest ....................................................................................................................... 42 Phil judges assoc v prado ................................................................This................................ is a petition for prohibition........................ with prayer 42 for the issuance of a Phil judges assoc v prado digest................................................................temporary ................................restraining order and/or.............. injuective 46 relief, to enjoin the respondent Senate Blue Ribbon committee from requiring the petitioners to testify and produce evidence at its inquiry into the alleged sale of the equity of Benjamin "Kokoy" Romualdez to the Arnault v. nazareno digest Lopa Group in thirty-six (36) or thirty-nine (39) corporations. Inquiry in Aid of Legislation On 30 July 1987, the Republic of the Philippines, represented by the Presidential Commission on Good Government (PCGG), assisted by This case arose from the legislative inquiry into the acquisition by the the Solicitor General, filed with the Sandiganbayan Civil Case No. Philippine Government of the Buenavista and Tambobong estates 0035 (PCGG Case No. 35) entitled "Republic of the Philippines vs. sometime in 1949. Among the witnesses called to be examined by the Benjamin "Kokoy" Romualdez, et al.", for reconveyance, reversion, special committee created by a Senate resolution was Jean L. Arnault, accounting, restitution and damages. a lawyer who delivered a partial of the purchase price to a representative of the vendor. During the Senate investigation, Arnault The complaint was amended several times by impleading new refused to reveal the identity of said representative, at the same time defendants and/or amplifying the allegations therein. Under the invoking his constitutional right against self-incrimination. The Second Amended Complaint, 1 the herein petitioners were impleaded Senate adopted a resolution committing Arnault to the custody of the as party defendants. Sergeant-at-Arms and imprisoned ―until he shall have purged the contempt by revealing to the Senate . the name of the person to The complaint insofar as pertinent to herein petitioners, as whom he gave the P440,000, as well as answer other pertinent defendants, alleges among others that: questions in connection therewith.‖ Arnault petitioned for a writ of Habeas Corpus 14. Defendants Benjamin (Kokoy) Romualdez and Juliette Gomez Romualdez, acting by themselves and/or in unlawful concert with ISSUE: Can the senate impose penalty against those who refuse to Defendants Ferdinand E. Marcos and Imelda R. Marcos, and taking answer its questions in a congressional hearing in aid of legislation. undue advantage of their relationship, influence and connection with the latter Defendant spouses, engaged in devices, schemes and HELD: It is the inherent right of the Senate to impose penalty in strategems to unjuestly enrigh themselves at the expense of Plaintiff carrying out their duty to conduct inquiry in aid of legislation. But it and the Filipino people, among others: must be herein established that a witness who refuses to answer a query by the Committee may be detained during the term of the (a) Obatained, with the active collaboration of Defendants Sene J. members imposing said penalty but the detention should not be too Gabaldon, Mario D. Camacho, Mamerto Nepomuceno, Carlos J. long as to violate the witness‘ right to due process of law. Valdez, Cesar C. Zalamea and Francisco Tantuico, Atty. Jose Bengzon, Jr. and his law partners, namely: Edilberto S. Narciso, Jr., Jose Vicente E. Jimenez, Amando V. Faustino, Jr., and Leonardo C. Cruz; Jose S. Sandejas and his fellow senior managers of FMMC/PNI Bengzon v senate Holdings groups of companies such as Leonardo Gamboa, Vicente T. Mills, Jr., Jose M. Mantecon, Abelardo S. Termulo, Rex C. Drilon II and Kurt Bachmann, Jr., control of some of the biggest business G.R. No. 89914 November 20, 1991 enterprises in the Philippines, such as the Manila Corporation (MERALCO), Benguet Consolidated and the Philippine Commercial JOSE F.S. BENGZON JR., ABELARDO TERMULO, JOSE International Bank (PCI Bank) by employing devious financial MANTECON, VICENTE MILLS JR., LEONARDO GAMBOA, schemes and techniques calculated to require the massive infusion KURT BACHMANN JR., JOSE V.E. JIMENEZ, ERNESTO 1 and hemorrhage of government funds with minimum or negligible the consequent reversion of the assigned brought the total "cashout" from Defendant Benjamin Romualdez... shareholding of the Fund to 11,470,555 voting shares or 36.8% of the voting stock of the PCIB, and this development (which the xxx xxx xxx defendants themselves orchestrated or allowed to happen) was used by them as an excuse for the unlawful dismantling or cancellation of the Fund's 10 million shares for allegedly exceeding the 30-percent (m) manipulated, with the support, assistance and collaboration of ceiling prescribed by Section 12-B of the General Banking Act, Philgurantee officials led by chairman Cesar E.A. Virata and the although they know for a fact that what the law declares as unlawful Senior managers of FMMC/PNI Holdings, Inc. led by Jose S. and void ab initio are the subscriptions in excess of the 30% ceiling Sandejas, Jr., Jose M. Mantecom and Kurt S. Bachmann, Jr., among "to the extent of the excess over any of the ceilings prescribed ..." and others, the formation of Erectors Holdings, Inc. without infusing not the whole or entire stockholding which they allowed to stay for additional capital solely for the purpose of Erectors Incorporated with six years (from June 30, 1980 to March 24, 1986); Philguarantee in the amount of P527,387,440.71 with insufficient securities/collaterals just to enable Erectors Inc, to appear viable and to borrow more capitals, so much so that its obligation with (q) cleverly hid behind the veil of corporate entity, through the use of Philgurantee has reached a total of more than P2 Billion as of June the names and managerial expertise of the FMMC senior manager 30, 1987. and lawyers identified as Jose B. Sandejas, Leonardo Gamboa, Vicente T. Mills, Abelardo S, Termulo, Edilberto S. Narciso, Jr., Jose M. Mantecon, Rex C. Drilon II, Kurt Bachmann, Jr. together with the (n) at the onset of the present Administration and/or within the week legal talents of corporate lawyers, such as Attys. Jose F.S. Bengzon, following the February 1986 People's Revolution, in conspiracy with, Jr., Jose V.E. Jimenez, Amando V. Faustino, Jr., and Leonardo C. supoort, assistance and collaboration of the abovenamed lawyers of Cruz, the ill-gotten wealth of Benjamin T. Romualdez including, the Bengzon Law Offices, or specifically Defendants Jose F.S. among others, the 6,229,177 shares in PCIB registered in the names Bengzon, Jr., V.E. Jimenez, Amando V. Faustino, Jr., and Edilberto of Trans Middle East Phils. Equities, Inc. and Edilberto S. Narciso, S. Narciso, Jr., manipulated, shcemed, and/or executed a series of Jr. which they refused to surrender to PCGG despite their disclosure devices intended to conceal and place, and/or for the purpose of as they tried and continue to exert efforts in getting hold of the same concealing and placing, beyond the inquiry and jurisdiction of the as well as the shares in Benguet registered in the names of Palm Presidential Commission on Good Government (PCGG) herein
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