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                    [Title] => Embattled CDC to face raps before ICJ
                    [Summary] => It looks like the officials of Clark Development Corp. (CDC) will have their hands full dodging lawsuits from disgruntled creditors of Mondragon Leisure and Resorts Corp., former operator of the Mimosa Leisure Estate. Spybiz insiders reported that CCA Holdings B.V., with a claim amounting to $1.68 million as of 1999 for managing the Monte Vista Hotel and the Mimosa Golf and Country Club, is set to file a lawsuit before the International Court of Justice to seek satisfaction and redress for its claim.
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                    [Title] => GSIS head files criminal case  versus former EPCIB officials
                    [Summary] => Controversial Presidential Adviser Roberto R. Romulo is once again in the limelight with the filing of a criminal case by Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) chief Winston Garcia with the Department of Justice for violation of the Securities Regulation Code (SRC) of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and Article 318 of the Revised Penal Code. Named as co-respondents in the criminal suit were Antonio Go, Anthony Conway, Peter Go Pailan, Romulo’s former co-directors at the Equitable PCI Bank (EPCIB) and former EPCIB corporate secretary Atty. Nilo Divina.


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                    [Title] => Midnight fastbreak at Equitable PCI Bank
                    [Summary] => When the Supreme Court allowed the new majority to serve as the board of the Equitable PCI Bank (EPCIB), our bank Eye-Spy disclosed that the new board had some eye-openers in their first week on the job. They uncovered a plan to provide former board member Anthony Conway a $500,000 golden parachute for his retirement. They also unearthed a P100-million  slush fund that was routinely being used by the old board as a charge account without liquidation requirements.
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                    [Title] => EPCIB minority board is bogus, illegal — Garcia
                    [Summary] => The head of pension fund Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) insisted yesterday that the board of directors elected by the Go family in Equitable PCI Bank is "bogus and illegal."


In an interview before meeting with EPCI Bank management at the bank’s Makati headquarters yesterday, GSIS president and general manager Winston Garcia  said their legal counsel is currently "studying legal and administrative measures against the so-called minority group."


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                    [Title] => Equitable PCI Bank majority bloc walks out of meet, elects new board
                    [Summary] => The much-anticipated annual shareholders’ meeting of Equitable PCI Bank pushed through yesterday afternoon with the two warring stockholder groups ending up electing their own board of directors, leaving many investors in the dark as to which board should be officially recognized.


                    [DatePublished] => 2005-07-20 00:00:00
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                    [AuthorName] => Zinnia B. Dela Peña
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                    [Title] => GSIS, SSS buck postponement of Equitable PCI Bank meeting
                    [Summary] => The Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) and the Social Security System (SSS) will object to any attempt to postpone the crucial July 19 stockholders’ meeting of Equitable PCIBank in Makati.


The two state pension funds have a combined equity holdings of more than 40 percent in the bank, with SSS owning 39 percent and GSIS, 12.7 percent. Their total shares constitute more than one-third of the bank’s total outstanding stock.


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                    [Title] => CA upholds SEC order revoking EPCIBank’s by-laws amendments
                    [Summary] => Dealing another setback to Equitable PCIBank, the Court of Appeals has issued an order preventing the bank’s board of directors from implementing any provision of the amended by-laws.


The order effectively upheld a Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) order revoking EPCIBank’s amendments to its by-laws which prevented competitors from getting into the bank’s board of directors.


According to the SEC, the amended by-laws would disenfranchise the majority shareholders of the bank and deprive them of their right to participate in internal affairs.


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                    [Title] => SEC disqualifies Romulo as EPCI Bank independent director
                    [Summary] => The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has disqualified Roberto R. Romulo as independent director of the Equitable PCI Bank, upholding the complaint filed by the Government Service Insurance System against EPCIB for alleged violation of SEC rules and regulations and the Revised Penal Code.


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                    [Title] => Equitable PCI Bank reacts to GSIS chief’s charges
                    [Summary] => The Equitable PCI Bank has labelled allegations of conspiracy by a government official as "without basis."


"We categorically say that the complaint by Winston Garcia is without basis,"  lawyer Nilo T. Divina, Equitable Bank executive vice president, general counsel, and corporate secretary, said in a letter to the Philippine Stock Exchange (PSE) dated July 5.


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                    [Title] => GSIS chief files criminal case against Romulo, Go, et al.
                    [Summary] => Virtually calling them frauds, Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) president and general manager Winston Garcia has lodged a criminal complaint against Presidential Adviser Roberto R. Romulo, Antonio Go, Anthony Conway, Peter Go Pailan and lawyer Nilo Divina for conspiring to perpetuate the artificial majority of the Go family in Equitable PCI Bank (EPCIB) by appointing Romulo as an independent director, despite prior knowledge that the latter was not qualified for the position.


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ANTHONY CONWAY

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                    [Title] => Embattled CDC to face raps before ICJ
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                    [Title] => GSIS head files criminal case  versus former EPCIB officials
                    [Summary] => Controversial Presidential Adviser Roberto R. Romulo is once again in the limelight with the filing of a criminal case by Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) chief Winston Garcia with the Department of Justice for violation of the Securities Regulation Code (SRC) of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and Article 318 of the Revised Penal Code. Named as co-respondents in the criminal suit were Antonio Go, Anthony Conway, Peter Go Pailan, Romulo’s former co-directors at the Equitable PCI Bank (EPCIB) and former EPCIB corporate secretary Atty. Nilo Divina.


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                    [Title] => Midnight fastbreak at Equitable PCI Bank
                    [Summary] => When the Supreme Court allowed the new majority to serve as the board of the Equitable PCI Bank (EPCIB), our bank Eye-Spy disclosed that the new board had some eye-openers in their first week on the job. They uncovered a plan to provide former board member Anthony Conway a $500,000 golden parachute for his retirement. They also unearthed a P100-million  slush fund that was routinely being used by the old board as a charge account without liquidation requirements.
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                    [Title] => EPCIB minority board is bogus, illegal — Garcia
                    [Summary] => The head of pension fund Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) insisted yesterday that the board of directors elected by the Go family in Equitable PCI Bank is "bogus and illegal."


In an interview before meeting with EPCI Bank management at the bank’s Makati headquarters yesterday, GSIS president and general manager Winston Garcia  said their legal counsel is currently "studying legal and administrative measures against the so-called minority group."


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                    [Title] => Equitable PCI Bank majority bloc walks out of meet, elects new board
                    [Summary] => The much-anticipated annual shareholders’ meeting of Equitable PCI Bank pushed through yesterday afternoon with the two warring stockholder groups ending up electing their own board of directors, leaving many investors in the dark as to which board should be officially recognized.


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                    [Title] => GSIS, SSS buck postponement of Equitable PCI Bank meeting
                    [Summary] => The Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) and the Social Security System (SSS) will object to any attempt to postpone the crucial July 19 stockholders’ meeting of Equitable PCIBank in Makati.


The two state pension funds have a combined equity holdings of more than 40 percent in the bank, with SSS owning 39 percent and GSIS, 12.7 percent. Their total shares constitute more than one-third of the bank’s total outstanding stock.


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                    [Title] => CA upholds SEC order revoking EPCIBank’s by-laws amendments
                    [Summary] => Dealing another setback to Equitable PCIBank, the Court of Appeals has issued an order preventing the bank’s board of directors from implementing any provision of the amended by-laws.


The order effectively upheld a Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) order revoking EPCIBank’s amendments to its by-laws which prevented competitors from getting into the bank’s board of directors.


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                    [Title] => SEC disqualifies Romulo as EPCI Bank independent director
                    [Summary] => The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has disqualified Roberto R. Romulo as independent director of the Equitable PCI Bank, upholding the complaint filed by the Government Service Insurance System against EPCIB for alleged violation of SEC rules and regulations and the Revised Penal Code.


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                    [Title] => Equitable PCI Bank reacts to GSIS chief’s charges
                    [Summary] => The Equitable PCI Bank has labelled allegations of conspiracy by a government official as "without basis."


"We categorically say that the complaint by Winston Garcia is without basis,"  lawyer Nilo T. Divina, Equitable Bank executive vice president, general counsel, and corporate secretary, said in a letter to the Philippine Stock Exchange (PSE) dated July 5.


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                    [Title] => GSIS chief files criminal case against Romulo, Go, et al.
                    [Summary] => Virtually calling them frauds, Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) president and general manager Winston Garcia has lodged a criminal complaint against Presidential Adviser Roberto R. Romulo, Antonio Go, Anthony Conway, Peter Go Pailan and lawyer Nilo Divina for conspiring to perpetuate the artificial majority of the Go family in Equitable PCI Bank (EPCIB) by appointing Romulo as an independent director, despite prior knowledge that the latter was not qualified for the position.


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