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THE
estranged wife of the President’s brother in law,
Kabalikat ng Malayang Pilipino Rep. Ignacio “Iggy”
Arroyo of Negros Occidental, on Tuesday asked the
Regional Trial Court in Pasig City to stop her husband
from dissipating their community assets after allegedly
discovering a loss of more than P126 million.
In a
news conference Alicia Rita “Aleli” Arroyo admitted that
she was “surprised and shocked” about the losses in a
span of just one year.
“In the
last week of May 2007, when the Statements of Assets and
Liabilities (SAL) of Congressman Ignacio Arroyo became
public, his legal wife Alicia Rita ‘Aleli’ Arroyo was
shocked to learn that Congressman Iggy removed from his
SAL certain assets belonging to the absolute community
of property of the spouses, it has substantially
decreased the community assets by more than 44 percent,”
Lorna Kapunan, Aleli’s lawyer said.
Based on
Iggy’s SAL, Aleli said the lawmaker's net worth assets
had dropped to P160 million as of December 2006 from
P287 million in 2005.
“For a
year now since my husband left, I did not obtain any
financial support and then I was just shocked to learn
that he has depleted our conjugal assets by P126.7
million and that is quite a lot in a year’s time,” Aleli
told reporters.
Aleli
admitted that Arroyo has a nasty habit of using
pseudonyms, citing the “Jose Pidal” account which
allegedly contained hundreds of millions of pesos, which
she said is already “empty.” She also accused the
congressman of not financially supporting her and their
daughter, Alelu.
The
lawyer said her client wanted an accounting and
inventory of their money; wanted to be appointed by the
court as receiver of the money; and third, was seeking
financial support from her husband. |
