Prosecutors junk OVY complaint

By Modesto P. Sa-onoy

 

For us in Western Visayas, the conflict in the family of Ricardo B. Yanson focused on the turmoil in the takeover of the two terminals in Bacolod – the main office in Mansiligan and the Sambok Terminal by Leo Rey’s police forces. But the struggle for control of the company, the Vallacar Transit Incorporated was nationwide because the company buses ply routes in the country though mostly in the Visayas and Mindanao where they dominate.

I learned lately that there was also a case filed in Dumaguete City Prosecutor’s Office in on the alleged trespassing of the three children of Ricardo Yanson into the compound of the company. This case was filed by their mother Olivia, now popularly known in media as OVY, in October 2019. Curiously, only three of the children were named as respondents in this case: Roy, Celina and Ricky Jr. I wonder why Emily was not included, probably she was not there.

This is actually a simple case but to build it the accuser had to tell lies or create a scenario to suits the claim. But as in all cases where the accusation is built upon a heap of lies, the forked tongue tale is also apparent to a right thinking individual.

According to the complaint the three “gained entry” into the compound of the company on July 26 at the height to the conflict. Olivia’s lawyers were shrewd by using the phrase “gained entry” which tried to create the image of the trio getting into the compound by force or by coercion or by other deceitful means. This is a lie. Thus, from the onset the complaint is a lie and more lies on top of more falsehoods. And Olivia swore to these lies.

The real gaining of entry into the compound happened in Bacolod where the police forced their way into the company property by breaking through the wall and disarming the internal security without court order.

Another lie peddled under oath, was Olivia’s claimed that her children got into the Dumaguete compound on the “instance of Roy with the indispensable assistance” of Celina and Ricky. Why? Can’t Roy enter the compound when he was the legally elected president of the corporation? The real intruder is Leo Rey, the unelected president of the corporation.

I wonder: what is the “indispensable assistance?” Maybe the two siblings carried the battering ram?

Olivia claims that “in anticipation of the Ceres compound on Bacolod on July 7” where conflicts arose, she issued a power of attorney to Candelario Lamada and Beverly Grace Tinapao “to secure the premises from unauthorized persons and informed the Dumaguete police” to help secure the place.

Lamada, the Ceres liner manager there, claimed that when he conducted an inspection of the compound at 2:30 in the morning of July 26 there were 76 security guards of AY 76 who “gained entry” into the compound and alleged it was on the instance or instruction of Roy.

Lamada must be omniscient because he knew at that very instance that the guards entered on instructions of Roy. He, however, did not say how the guards “gained entry” into the area.

The complaint included a photograph of a tarpaulin notice saying: No illegal entry. No entry for Roy, Emily, Celina & Ricky.

In their reply submitted to the Dumaguete City Prosecutors, the three siblings said that the main gate was “amply opened for them without any prohibition, conflict or resistance.” They included photographs of the area taken on July 26 and 27 and there was no tarpaulin with the notice that Olivia swore were displayed there.

Two falsehoods are apparent. First if there was forcible entry, then the police would have been called and the incident recorded. But there was no police record presented.

Second, if Lamada found the security guards of AY 76 in the compound at the wee hours of the morning, would he not been alerted of their presence and reported the matter to the police of armed men inside a private property, especially of a bus company embroiled in a dispute?

Of course there was no report because the City Prosecutor never mentioned anything about it. What was claimed never happened.

Continued tomorrow.