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THE
Department of Justice on Tuesday cleared Ayala Land Inc.
(ALI) of any liability in the blast that rocked their
Glorietta mall last year, but said that as many as three
more people may be charged in relation to the incident.
Justice
Secretary Raul Gonzalez said after departure honors for
President Arroyo at the Centennial Terminal that he will
release a resolution identifying the others to be
implicated.
“I will
release the resolution maybe tomorrow or Thursday. There
are two corporations, the ALI and the Ayala Property
Management Corp. (APMC). I don’t want to telegraph the
findings that we have now but it will come out. But I
can say that Ayala Land Inc. is not involved here,” said
Gonzalez.
He said
the DOJ is scrutinizing the record of APMC, as “it
appears that almost all of the directors of Ayala
Property aAAvvre just there as nominal members with just
one share each, so we have to look at the controlling
people here and who are really managing this.”
APMC is
a wholly owned subsidiary of ALI engaged in integrated
property management services including building
administration and maintenance, lease administration
activities, commercial center and subdivision
maintenance, and special technical services.
The
National Police earlier filed charges against 15 people
in connection with the October 19 explosion that killed
11 persons and injured over 100 others.
Authorities had earlier pointed to a gas explosion in
the basement as the cause for the deadly blast but ALI,
backed by its experts, insists that it was caused by a
bomb. |
