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Reuben Protacio vs Atty Roberto Mendoza

REUBEN M. PROTACIO, complainant, vs. ATTY. ROBERTO M. MENDOZA, respondent.

A.C. No. 5764 | 2003-01-13

D E C I S I O N
 
MENDOZA, J.:
 
This is a complaint for disbarment against Atty. Roberto M. Mendoza for his alleged failure to require the parties to a document which he notarized to appear personally before him.

Complainant Reuben M. Protacio alleged that, as president of Jumping Jap Trading Company, Inc. (JJTC, Inc.), he filed in the Office of the City Prosecutor of Manila on March 7, 2001 a complaint for estafa through falsification of public documents against the spouses Nobuyasu and Carmencita Nemoto and the Metropolitan Land Corporation. He claimed that respondent Atty. Roberto M. Mendoza, who served as counsel for the spouses...