Police ‘fooled’ in chopper deal
Thursday, July 28, 2011
MANILA (Updated 12:53 p.m.) — A police official on Thursday said they may have been a victim of fraud, saying the company that sold them second hand helicopters in 2009 claimed they were brand new.
Chief Superintendent Herold Ubalde told the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee that “apparently, there was deceit” in the purchase of two
Robinson Raven helicopters, which were found to have been flying as early as 2004.
The Philippine National Police (PNP) earlier presented a sworn statement from Hilario De Vera, president of Manila Aerospace Parts and Services Inc (Maptra) that the helicopters he was selling to the PNP were brand new.
The document was submitted as a post-qualification requirement, Ubalde said.
Senator Franklin Drilon said the papers for the sale of the helicopters from Lion Air Inc. to Maptra clearly indicated the helicopters were second hand.
He said delivering units of a different quality than promised was a “classic case of estafa (fraud).”
But lawyer Luis Rivera, at the hearing on behalf of Maptra, said the company “has no capacity to deceive the PNP.”
He said Maptra would submit its records on the sale at the next hearing.
Police Director George Piano, former director for logistics, said they accepted the units on the presumption that they were brand new.
Earlier in the hearing, Police Superintendent Claudio Gaspar Jr., a member of the PNP inspection team and a pilot detailed to the Office of the President from 2001 to 2009, said he knew that the units were not new.
He said he had flown the helicopters before, as early as 2004. He said, however, that he did not tell higher ups that the helicopters were not new because he was not asked. He said he wasn’t told that they were supposed to be factory-fresh units.
“I thought they knew,” he told senators. (Jonathan de Santos/Sunnex)
Source: http://www.sunstar.com.ph/manila/local-news/2011/07/28/police-fooled-chopper-deal-169440
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