ANOTHER court case hounds the controversial sale of the land and building of the MC Adore International Palace owned by the Dagupan City government last January 7, 2013 to the Amb. ALC Holdings and Management Corporation.

This time, a civil case was filed by Mr. Leo Angeles, a resident of Dagupan City seeking the annulment and sale, reconveyance and damages.

Named as defendants are former Mayor Benjamin S. Lim, Councilors Jesus D. Canto and Alvin T. Coquia, City Treasurer Romelita Alcantara, City Auditor Virgil Tangco, City Accountant Teresita Manaois, Eduardo Magno, Ricardo Victoria, businesswoman Leila Chua-Sy, Mayor Belen T. Fernandez, City government of Dagupan City and AMB ALC Holdings and Management Corporation.

Specifically, the complaint seeks the annulment of the Deed of Absolute Sale dated January 22, 2014, declaring the purchase price paid by Amb ALC to be grossly inadequate, ordering the reconveyance of subject of properties to the City Government of Dagupan, ordering Mayor Belen Fernandez to pay Angeles the amount of P100,000 as temperate damages.

The case has been raffled to the sala of Judge Florentino Dumlao Branch 42 of the Regional Trial Court in Dagupan City.

Among the complaints alleged by Angeles include:

1. “The city council of Dagupan did not conduct an inspection” of the hotel properties or “issue a previous resolution abandoning the intended purpose of the properties due to their alleged condition or declaring the same to be unserviceable.”

2. The P119, million paid by Amb. ALC amounted to a purchase of the property at P23,000.00 per sq. meter,  “which is far less than the adjacent properties which were being sold at P35,000.00 per square meter”.

3. “The city government proceeded with the auction on January 7, 2013,  (the new auction date) without republishing the notice of auction.”

4, “Notwithstanding the writ of injunction, Amb ALC made full payment and thereafter executed a deed of absolute sale date January 28 with the city government.”

5. “That despite the invalidity of the sale of the properties and the grossly inadequate price paid by Amb. ALC,” Mayor Fernandez has yet “to cause the annulment of the Deed of Sale and the return of the properties to the city government.”

Canto, Coquia, Alacantara, Tangco, Manaois, Magno , Victoria  and Chua Sy were impleaded as members of the Committee on Awards that handled the disposal of the properties.

Meanwhile, Angeles filed a request for the annotation of Notice of Lis Pendens with the Register of Deeds on the certificates of titles NO. 93237,93238, 93239, and 93240 titled under the name of Amb. ALC HOLDINGS citing the case he filed. This effectively prevents the owner from disposing the properties while the case is pending.

It will be recalled that Angeles filed a case against Mayor Lim before the Ombudsman last March 2013 over the purchase of the 30-hectare farmland in San Jacinto.

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