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Africa vs. PCGG, et al.

VICTOR AFRICA, petitioner, vs. PRESIDENTIAL COMMISSION ON GOOD GOVERNMENT, JOSE LAURETA, MELQUIADES GUTIERREZ, EDUARDO M. VILLANUEVA, EDUARDO DE LOS ANGELES and ROMAN MABANTA, JR., respondents. G.R. No. 85594 January 9, 1992 PRESIDENTIAL COMMISSION ON GOOD GOVERNMENT and PCGG-Nominees/Designees: MELQUIADES GUTIERREZ, EDUARDO M. VILLANUEVA, RAMON DESUASIDO, ALMARIO P. VELASCO, RANULFO P. PAYOS and JOSE P. ROXAS, petitioners. vs. THE HONORABLE SANDIGANBAYAN (THIRD DIVISION), JOSE L. AFRICA, MANUEL H. NIETO, JR., RAFAEL VALDEZ and VICTOR AFRICA, respondents. G.R. No. 85597 January 9, 1992 REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES (PRESIDENTIAL COMMISSION ON GOOD GOVERNMENT), petitioner, vs. THE HONORABLE SANDIGANBAYAN (THIRD DIVISION), JOSE L. AFRICA, MANUEL H. NIETO and RAFAEL VALDEZ, respondents. G.R. No. 85621 January 9, 1992 EDUARDO M. VILLANUEVA, petitioner, vs. THE HONORABLE SANDIGANBAYAN (THIRD DIVISION), JOSE L. AFRICA, MANUEL NIETO, RAFAEL C. VALDEZ and PRESIDENTIAL COMMISSION ON GOOD GOVERNMENT,* respondents.

G.R. No. 83831 | 1992-01-09

D E C I S I O N


REGALADO, J.:

These four cases separately filed before this Court were consolidated pursuant to our resolution of November 22, 1988 1 since they involve issues arising from, incidental or related to the sequestration of Eastern Telecommunications Philippines, Inc. (ETPI) by the Presidential Commission on Good Government (PCGG) on March 14, 1986 and the consequent filing by the PCGG on July 22, 1987 of an action for reconveyance, reversion, accounting and restitution of the alleged ill-gotten ETPI shares and damages, docketed as Civil Case No. 0009 in the Sandiganbayan.

Shortly after the PCGG sequestered ETPI on March...