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Variation of Wikileaks info re SC corruption

Published by Ellen on September 11, 2011

Letter of Court Administrator Midas Marquez to Malaya re Wikileaks report on SC justices and Mariano Nocom.

Ex OMB Chair Edu Manzano
I’ve been trying to call Edu Manzano, former chairman of the Optical Media Board, who was the source of former US Embassy Deputy Chief of Mission Paul Jones in his report about Supreme Court justices giving protection to businessman Mariano Nocom, in whose malls many pirated goods are sold.

This was in his Sept. 2006 cable which was one of those recently released by Wikileaks website.

I didn’t get a response to my text messages to Edu. I was told he is out of the country. Maybe he does not want to be disturbed.

The reason why I was calling Edu was because a friend in the Supreme Court told me that true, Nocom has protectors in the High Court, but as far as he knows it is not former Chief Justice Artemio Panganiban.

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Former chief justice rates a leak in WikiLeaks

Published by Ellen on September 8, 2011

I love Wikileaks.

It unmasks the two-faced. It reveals the double-life of many of the officials that we respect.

Take this one from Paul Jones, who served deputy chief of mission of the US Embassy in Manila. His cable in Sept. 2006 indicated that former Chief Justice Artemio Panganiban was the protector of Filipino-Chinese businessman Mariano Nocom, whose malls were said to have been selling pirated goods.

Piracy undermines legitimate business and deprives the government of revenues.

The cable was about the demotion of Judge Antonio Eugenio who was handling intellectual property rights (IPR) cases.

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