Consumerism activists belonging to the United Filipino Consumers and Commuters (UFCC) and the Water For All Refund Movement (WARM) have filed plunder and graft charges before the Office of the Ombudsman against incumbent and former officials of the Public Estates Authority (PEA) plus top officers of a private developer over their alleged conspiracy to defraud the government in a 1988 sale for a pittance of a four-hectare reclamation property along Roxas Boulevard in Parañaque City (Metro Manila) now valued at over P41 billion.

The UFCC, represented by its lead convenor Rodolfo Javellana Jr., recently filed the case against the PEA officials and executives of the Manila Bay Development Corp. (MBDC) for violation of the anti-plunder and anti-graft laws (Republic Act 3019 and RA 7080, respectively) over the MBDC’s failure to develop a seaside estate beside the Cavite Expressway (Cavitex), nearly three decades after both parties signed an agreement covering its sale and supposed conversion into a Greenhills-type commercial center.

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