Lovely Ladignon De Vera – The need for NBI and Government Housing Agency Action

This Weblog has been set up to make public the activities of Lovely Ladignon de Vera, a woman with a past history of multiple charges for estafa and violation of BP22 (Bouncing checks), who has used the false alias names Lovely Ladignon, Lovely Lapuz, Lovely Mandapat and Lovely Ladignon Mandapat to make falsified representations to Philippine Government officials and unsuspecting buyers in her Community Mortgage Program projects.

These projects are being promoted by a falsely registered NGO, Baguio-Benguet Green Meadows Foundation Inc.

Many people are already suing her and her accomplice Judge Abraham Borreta to get their money back. She recently lost a court case filed by Baguio City Hall employees who had been duped by her use of a false name to sell them lots for an unapproved and unlicensed social housing scheme.

Don’t become another victim of her use of false alias names.

The objectives of this weblog are to:

• Get Lovely Ladignon De Vera to admit that her own testimony before both the Supreme Court and Judge Pamintuan of RTC Branch 3, Baguio City is self-incriminating evidence that she criminally used the false alias name Lovely Ladignon Mandapat when making representations to various Philippine Government officials.
• Get Lovely Ladignon De Vera to admit that she criminally falsely completed NBI arrest forms.
• Get Lovely Ladignon De Vera to publish on her website www.lovelylapuz.com all documents pertaining to her claimed anulment of her marriage to Christopher Tobias De Vera and all documents pertaining to her claimed subsequent marriage to Roehl Gapol Mandapat.
• Ascertain, based on her publication of those documents, the exact extent of her falsification of public documents, which is a criminal offense under Philippine Law. 
• Get the various Government Agencies who have been deceived by the use of a false alias name to coordinate with NBI and file the appropriate criminal charges against her, as they are mandated by Philippine Law to do so, and in order to protect the general public and ensure clean and transparent expenditure of tax payers money on the Government’s Socialized Housing Program.
• Get the Supreme Court to motu propio investigate Judge Abraham Borreta of RTC Branch 154 Pasig City for his multiple documented violations of the Code of Judicial Conduct, his apparent involvement in Special Powers of Attorney containing criminally falsified statements intended to deceive government agencies and others, and his association with a person who was using a criminally falsified alias name.
• Get Lovely Ladignon De Vera to refund all of the buyers that she has cheated in her unauthorized social housing projects and hwen using a false alias name

We further forewarn Lovely Ladignon De Vera a.k.a Lovely Lapuz a.k.a Lovely Ladignon a.k.a Lovely Ladignon Mandapat that absent her submission to any Prosecutor’s Office in the Philippines or the NBI of those documents regarding her marital status and National Statistics Office legally recognized name during the period January 1999 to December 2007, she will not be demonstrating that she has any valid legal capacity whatsoever to pursue any court action or file any complaint in the Philippines, including the one that she recently filed in Baguio City against Dr. Jawi Oquendo, and that her capacity to sue will now be challenged on the basis of her questionable identity.

In simple terms, no evidence of malice can exist with regard to this weblog unless she first publishes her De Vera anulment and Mandapat marriage documents in full and publicly acknowledges every occasion on which she had used the criminally false alias name Lovely Ladignon Mandapat before Government officials. 

Of course, Lovely Ladignon De Vera is entitled to a right of reply to our blog. Being fair and reasonable people who do not bear any malice towards her, we would not deny her such an opportunity. She is more than welcome to send us a copy of her court anulment of the marriage to Christopher De Vera and her subsequent marriage certificate to Roehl Gapol Mandapat if she believes that our allegations of falsification and fraud are untrue. But to date she has not done so, thus indicating that she knows that the allegations made against her are true.

Government Housing Agencies are now investigating her activities, and the accreditation of BBGMFI has been suspended by SHFC since last year. Current HUDCC investigations may result in her accreditations etc being revoked. Cheated buyers should make direct inquiries with the housing agencies on the current status of BBGMFI before making any further payments to De Vera, a.k.a. Lapus, Lapuz, Ladignon, Mandapat, and they should also file complaints.

We ask the new NBI Director, Magtanggol Gatdula, to quickly carry out an internal investigation into why his Deputy Director Rickson Chiong and several other NBI agents (such as Rose Torres) have, according to new information provided to us, been harrassing several people, including government housing agency officers, by issuing subpoenas on behalf of a woman using the surname Ladignon, especially given that Chiong previously headed the NBI Baguio office that arrested the same woman on 24 January 2002 under her NSO legally recognized married surname of De Vera.

If NBI agents are issuing subpoenas in order to harrass Government officials when the Department of Justice (which the NBI is a line agency of) last year stated that there was no internet libel law in the Philippines, and a Supreme Court case has agreed with the same, then those agents, aside from having no legal jurisidiction, are showing all the signs that they have a corrupt involvement. We therefore ask President Aquino and V-P Jejomar Binay, head of HUDCC, to coordinate with the DoJ to investigate this NBI harrassment which would seem to be based upon corrupt and illegal motives intended to protect a person whio has been operating social housing scams.

Is Mr. Chiong unaware that cheated lot buyers have already used the public documents posted on this weblog to obtain court and HLURB decisions requiring “Mandapat” to reimburse money to those cheated buyers? Is Mr. Chiong unaware that SHFC suspended the accreditation of BBGMFI and “Mandapat” on the basis of those cheated lot buyers complaints and the content of this weblog? Is Mr. Chiong unaware that HUDCC is investigating BBGMFI and ”Mandapat” because of a refusal to respond to SHFC correspondence together with cheated lot buyers complaints and the content of this weblog?  Has Mr. Chiong not worked out that it is highly improbable that Lovely Ladignon De Vera would be able to get her marriage to Christopher De Vera annulled by a court less than three years after that marriage was solemnised? Is Mr. Chiong incapable of doing very basic background check investigation before hastily issuing subpoenas to innocent parties? It would seem so, or he is hiding the real truth that is known to him.

Cheated lot buyers are presently disgusted that Mr. Chiong and his NBI team are protecting a person who has cheated them using alias names, and they are also disgusted that he is assisting this woman to harrass government housing agency officers who have done their job properly and have set out to protect lot buyers from unauthorized and illegal social housing lot sales.

Perhaps Mr. Chiong and his NBI team need to consider whether a judge too would be disgusted by their failure to protect the general public and government agencies, and particularly their failure to comply with the over-riding legally mandated obligation of the NBI to protect government and the general public.

We are rather amazed that Rickson Chiong did not recognize that the woman using the name Ladignon was the same person that his NBI Baguio office arrested under her real name of De Vera in 2002. Again, a lack of basic background checking that can hardly inspire the confidence of the general public and cheated lot buyers in the NBI.

However, Chiong can always demand that Ladignon submits to fingerprinting and then compare those prints with the two falsified NBI arrest records for De Vera. Then he can correctly charge her with criminally falsifying those January 2002 arrest records, falsely regsitering BBGMFI, falsely obtaining CTCs, falsely opening a bank account, falsely obtaining various government agency certifications etc, and using a false name to file a complaint against government officials.

If he does not do this then the question will arise as to whether or not Mr. Chiong is acting as an accomplice to the illegal harrassment by De Vera of government officials using the alias name Ladignon, and also protecting her from criminal prosecution for that false filing of her De Vera arrest records and false obtaining of government certifications etc.

Mr. Chiong should also have investigated whether this woman obtained a court anulment of her marriage to Christopher De Vera and whether she ever had any legally valid marriage to Roehl Gapol Mandapat. He has no excuse for not doing so, given that his Baguio Office previously arrested her under the name of De Vera, and the NBI is in a position to question her under oath and demand that she provide it with copies of the court anulment papers and Mandapat marriage certificate.

As a lawyer, and the given the restrictive laws on marriage anulment, and her previous 1993 church marriage and the birth of a child, Mr. Chiong should be able to work out that it is highly improbable that Lovely Ladignon De Vera  was able to obtain an anulment of her 1999 civil marriage to Christopher De Vera such that she would have been able to legally re-marry Roehl Gapol Mandapat before she obtained a CTC in May 2002 and registered and incorporated BBGMFI in September 2002 using the surname Mandapat.

It quite amazes us that Mr. Chiong did not check out such basic facts regarding Lovely Ladignon De Vera before he decided to improperly harass government officials and members of the public to protect the criminal activities of Lovely Ladignon De Vera. If he had checked out her background properly, he would not have been harassing those people because instead he should have correctly arrested De Vera for multiple criminal offenses.

This is about protecting the best interests of government,  the general public and cheated lot buyers, Mr. Chiong, and not about protecting a private individual who has been running social housing scams without the necessary authorization, permits etc and when using false alias names.

It is indeed quite unbelievable and disgraceful that Mr. Chiong is harrassing government housing agency officials who have been assisting many cheated lot buyers including government employees to recover money from this woman who was selling lots without permits, licenses to sell, etc. 

Mr. Chiong, who is a lawyer,  must be aware that selling lots without having a license to sell is estafa and that selling CMP lots without first fulfilling the requirements of RA7279 etc is also a criminal offense. Does not Mr. Chiong understand that it the duty of government housing officials to protect the general public from scams and illegal activity that violates RA7279 and other laws? Why is Mr. Chiong not assisting government housing agencies to raid the offices of BBGMFI to take over the records of that bogus foundation so that the amount of money that this woman has obtained from unsuspecting lot buyers at Benguet Green Meadows, Hinigaran Green Meadows and other projects can be established and criminal charges filed against her and her accomplices?

Please remember Mr. Chiong that a judge will ask you all of the above basic questions if you ever try to pursue this harrassment before a court, and given the content of this weblog page, if you have not checked out this woman and recognized her criminal activities, it will look like you are an accomplice to those activities.

The NBI should not be assisting a woman to falsely harass government officials who are investigating her publicly recorded use of alias names to  obtain certifications, accreditations and loans from government housing agencies.  Instead it should be prosecuting this woman. The only subpoena that needs to be issued by the NBI is one against Lovely Ladignon De Vera.

Read all of the public documents on this weblog Mr. Chiong, they give you almost all the evidence you need to prosecute Lovely Ladignon De Vera. So why are you not doing that Mr. Chiong?

Mr. Chiong would be very wise to read the case file for the complaint filed by Judge Ayson against Judge Borreta. He will then be able to clearly see that the woman he is now trying to corruptly help has already admitted her real identity in sworn testimony before the Supreme Court, and that NBI documents were presented as evidence before the Supreme Court in order to get her to admit to her real identity of LovelyLadignon De Vera.

Mr. Chiong would be even wiser to recognize such Supreme Court facts and withdraw the harassment sunpoenas that he has issued on behalf of this woman as fast as he can before he faces an investigation himself and possibly loses his job.

Has Mr. Chiong forgotten his mandate under RA157 Section 1(A), which by way of this weblog the general public demands that he investigate the crimes and other offenses of Lovely Ladignon De Vera (under her alias surnames of Mandapat, Lapuz and Ladignon) against the laws of the Philippines upon his own initiative and as public interest may require? Now get on with it Mr. Chiong and no excuses for not doing so. You are a public servant who must prioritize the protection of the general public and in particular the many lot buyers who have been cheated by Lovely Ladignon De Vera, a person that your previous Baguio NBI office previously arrested in 2002.

It is also respectfully suggested to Mr. Chiong that, with reference to the recent Yuchengco case heard by the Supreme Court, he should advise Lovely Ladignon De Vera to use the correct prosecutor’s office jurisdiction, and her correct NSO legally recognized surname, to file any libel complaint that she is able to support with relevant evidence and may wish to pursue. That would mean that she needs to support such a complaint with every single page of this weblog including documents that question her legally recognized identity, etc.  She does not need any NBI asistance, she simply needs to file her compliant with a prosecutor’s office using her legally recognized name in order to avoid a simple criminal counterclaim.  It would seem that she is afraid to do that because the Baguio City Prosecutor is already aware that Mandapat is a false name.

It would seem that Director Gatdula may need to carry out some “cleansing” of the NBI so that his department can properly fulfill its mandate to assist government housing agencies in their investigations instead of incorrectly participating in harrassment of their staff.

If anything, given President Aquino’s desire to end graft and corruption, Director Gatdula should be assisting the housing agencies in pursuing any necessary criminal charges that need to be filed against Lovely Ladignon De Vera who has variously been using the alias surnames Lapuz, Ladignon and Mandapat when dealing with housing agencies and lot buyers instead of her NSO legally recognized married surname of De Vera, under which she was previously arrested by the NBI.

So if the NBI is filing criminal charges against Globe Asiatique and Delfin Tan etc, the cheated buyers in Baguio and elsewhere would like to know why the NBI is not filing criminal charges against BBGMFI, its trustees and officers and most particularly Lovely Ladignon De Vera?

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