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BY GLENDA SOLOGASTOA
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Tuesday, December 20, 2016
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ILOILO City – On Sept. 5, 2016 the Municipal Trial Court, Branch 10 issued an arrest warrant against the owner of a blacklisted supplier of the Iloilo provincial government and the owner’s suspected dummy.
Now, Presiding Judge Enrique Z. Trespeces wanted to know if the arrest warrant had been served to Consuelo del Castillo, owner of Bacolod City-based Diomar Trading, and Ma. Jackielou Lyn Majaducon, the suspected dummy.
Diomar Trading supplied medicines and medical apparatuses to provincial government-run hospitals. In 2015 the capitol charged del Castillo and Majaducon with falsification of public and commercial documents.
But three months ago, del Castillo died, according to Atty. Suzette Mamon, chairman of the fact-finding committee that Gov. Arthur Defensor Sr. created to investigate the supplier. It was the committee that recommended the filing of charges.
Del Castillo’s death freed from her from personal liability, said Mamon, but the case should still proceed.
“Majaducon was the named owner of Diomar Trading but based on our findings, she only served as dummy of del Castillo,” Mamon said.
The arrest warrant issued on Sept. 5, 2016 was sent through registered mail addressed to the chief of police of Bacolod City’s Police Station 3 on Lacson Street, Barangay Mandalagan.
According to the court, Police Station 3 failed to make a report about the arrest warrant. Thus in an order dated Nov. 29, 2016 it demanded an explanation.
The order read: “The Court therefore directs the Chief of Police of Police Station 3, as a head of office, to submit an explanation why he failed to make a return of the order within 10 days upon receiving the order.”
“We are waiting for the return of the warrant from the police and then we will forward it to the court here in Iloilo so we could proceed with the hearing,” said Mamon.
In 2014 Diomar Trading got a three-year suspension from the provincial government for falsification of public documents over transactions worth P1.65 million. But there were reports it may have resumed transactions with the provincial government under a different name – Dione Trading. Alarmed, Governor Defensor ordered the Provincial Legal Office to make verifications.
Dione Trading was reportedly owned by a son of del Castillo./PN
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