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Sunday, March 11, 2012

Unanswered charge

FRONTLINE
Unanswered charge
By Ninez Cacho-Olivares

For all the media muck being raised by Ana Basa and her aunt, a Franciscan nun against the Chief Justice and his wife, Cristina, over a family squabble concerning the sale of a family property, complete with a melodrama script being lapped up by the prosecution that threatens to use the two Basas to prove the “unfitness” of CJ Renato Corona as a top magistrate, Ana seemed to suddenly shut up after the CJ, in his first media interview in GMA TV’s Unang Hirit let out something, in answer to Ana Basa’s claims in the media.

The CJ, asked by the TV host to comment on the claim of Ana that her family was “oppressed” by Mrs. Corona, as she sold the family property without giving Ana’s family a share of the proceeds, asked who oppressed whom, as apparently, Ana’s family sold a family property better known as Eastwood for P2 billion and failed to give Cristina her share of the proceeds.

Apparently, Ana and her nun aunt, who doesn’t sound spiritual at all, coming off as more interested in putting down a man she probably does not even really know and judging him, did not want to have this subject of the Eastwood sale opened up, as she never answered this claim made by the CJ.

Oddly enough, the yellow media, even as they covered the CJ interview, made no mention of this Eastwood sale bit for P2 billion, as alleged by Corona in their reports, and even their follow up interviews with both Ana and her nun aunt never mentioned this CJ charge.

Neither does the prosecution bring this issue up. After all, what’s a P32 million in expropriated land held in trust by Cristina Corona that the Basa relatives are bitching about having been left out of their inheritance, as against the P2-billion Eastwood sale where they left out an heir, Cristina, as they didn’t give her a share, as an heir? What’s P32 million against P2 billion?

All Ana said following CJ’s first media interview was that it wasn’t she who had asked for the interview, but the Inquirer. She was just in Manila to visit her aunt and the paper asked her all these questions. And media never brought up this allegation made by the CJ nor asked Ana, even out of curiosity, about the claimed P2-billion Eastwood property sold by relatives?

That was a pretty strange answer from one who even “sobbed” about her parents being so oppressed by the Coronas and one who moreover spoke of fighting for justice, which line was also echoed by this Franciscan nun. One wonders if Ana’s family gave this nun her share of the P2 billion sale of the family’s Eastwood property.

Not surprisingly, the prosecution quickly churned out threats of presenting Ana Basa as its rebuttal witness against the CJ, despite the fact that even if Cristina Corona does testify on matters related to the Statement of Assets and Liabilities Networth of the CJ, the Basa-Guidote Enterprises Inc. has nothing to do with the family squabble, in which case, what is the prosecution’s rationale in presenting Ana, or the nun, as a rebuttal witness, as the squabble is an extraneous issue that will not be brought out by the defense?

But obviously, the prosecutors are banking on their senator-judges to bring up this extraneous issue of the family squabble to introduce a “new” issue on which the prosecution can present a rebuttal witness.

That is how unfair the Noynoy senator-judges can be even as they claim to be fair and impartial.

Didn’t these Noynoy senator-judges insist on getting all the information on the CJ’s bank accounts despite the fact that these bank account deposits are strictly not part of the articles, since 2.4, which charges the CJ with “suspected” hidden and illegal funds was already stricken out of the complaint?

But, as Frank Drilon hypocritically claimed, the senator-judges can question the witnesses in search for the truth.

It has nothing to do with the search for truth. It has everything to do with humiliating the CJ and his wife to get him to resign or justify their expected conviction vote.

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