BIR padlocks bistro at Mall of
Asia
FOR its continued non-compliance with orders asking it to
correct its violations of the Tax Code, Bistro Tuscano, a food/restaurant
business at the Mall of Asia in Pasay City was closed last Tuesday by the Bureau
of Internal Revenue.
The order signed by BIR Commissioner Sixto S. Esquivias IV
was served and enforced on the JanetNJo Food Corp., owner of Bistro Tuscano, for
failing to refute the findings of Revenue District Office No. 51 in Pasay City
which gave it 48 hours’ notice and five-day VAT compliance notice to rectify its
violations.
"Bistro Tuscano’s failure to rectify its violations after it
was given the chance to do so showed its disregard of the country’s tax laws and
non-submission to the BIR’s authority," Revenue Region No. 8, Makati City
regional director Alfredo V. Misajon said.
Bistro Tuscano’s violations included understatement of
taxable sales by 412.55 percent in the last three years for a total of
P37,606,591.70.
Revenue district officer Josephine S. Virtucio of RDO No. 51,
Pasay City said many more delinquent taxpayers are "in the pipeline, ready to be
padlocked if they do not clean up their acts." The BIR’s Oplan Kandado is the
flagship project of Esquivias to enforce sanctions against firms that do not
comply with the requirements of the Tax Code.
UE Law dean lectures at UP Law
Center
DEAN Amado D. Valdez of the University of the East College of
Law will lecture today at 9 a.m. at a forum titled Analytical Survey of 2008
Supreme Court Decisions at the UP Law Center in UP Diliman.
Valdez, a UE College of Law 1969 graduate and one of the 60
Most Outstanding UE alumni-honorees during UE’s 60th Diamond Jubilee, is a
highly sought-after resource person on political, administrative, criminal,
civil, labor, remedial, and international law.
Dean Valdez is also expected to provide insights on former
President Joseph Estrada’s planned candidacy at the 2010 Presidential Election.
‘Alay kay Boy Togs’ cartoon
exhibit
THE National Press Club and Mayor Alfredo S. Lim are
sponsoring the editorial cartoon exhibit "Alay kay BoyTogs" at the Rodriguez
Hall of the Manila City Hall which will be opened to the public today as part of
Manila’s 438th Foundation Day.
The cartoon exhibit is in honor of the late cartoonist Romeo
"Boy Togs" Togonon.
Winning entries to the 1st NPC-Samahan ng mga Kartunista ng
Pilipinas editorial cartoon competition will be shown during the exhibit. The
editorial cartoons on display will be sold to raise funds for the families of
slain journalists.
Thaddeus Anthony Cabangon, publisher of Business Mirror and
son of Ambassador Antonio L. Cabangon Chua, chairman of the ALC Group of
Companies, will open the exhibit.
Wanted American captured in
Pangasinan
POLICE arrested an American lawyer wanted in his country for
a series of crimes during an operation in Sta. Barbara, Pangasinan Tuesday.
Senior Supt. Percival Barba, Pangasinan police chief, said
Joseph Arriola, 42, who fled to the US two years ago to elude arrest, has been
indicted for non-bailable offenses in his country, including multiple counts of
wire fraud and money laundering.
Acting on information from the US Federal Bureau of
Investigation that Arriola was hiding somewhere in Santa Barbara, Barba formed
tracker teams led by Supt. Eric Noble. The local cops were briefed by FBI agents
prior to the stakeout of Arriola’s reported hideout in Barangay Cablong. Noble
and PO3 Rosella Penuliar also posed as US embassy representatives who needed to
talk with Arriola’s fiancée Juvie Cerveza in nearby Barangay Botao about her
application for the US visa. Cerveza was out but Arriola was in her house. He
welcomed the visitors and chatted with them. When Immigration agents came in, he
did not resist arrest. – Raymond Africa
Murder suspect in hiding for 17
years arrested
AGENTS of the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group
arrested a man wanted for the murder of another man 17 years ago during an
operation in Palawan Sunday.
CIDG chief Director Raul L. Castañeda identified the suspect
as Allan Sola, 39, of Barangay Irawan, Quezon, Palawan, who has a P140,000
bounty on his head. Sola was wanted for killing Herminio Digdig. His two cohorts
identified as Danilo Sinco and Naldo Alutaya were arrested right after the
murder.
Sola moved from one place to another after the killing to
evade arrest until he was spotted visiting his house in Barangay Irawan. Acting
on the information, CIDG operatives led by Supt. Sotera Macatangay, CIDG
Mimaropa chief, formed a team to arrest Sola. – Raymond Africa
Pimp convicted for child
prostitution
BACOLOD CITY - A pimp, who is at large and has a standing
warrant for his arrest, was found guilty Monday of child prostitution and
sentenced to 17 years imprisonment.
Bacolod Regional Trial Court Judge Ray Alan Drilon who
sentenced Cyril Amay Tobias in absentia, also ordered him to pay a fine of
P20,000, to be administered by the Department of Social Welfare and Development
for the rehabilitation of the victim.
Drilon said the accused, who was released on bail, failed to
present any evidence for his defense because he jumped bail, and remains at
large.
The court decision said that on Oct. 12, 2005 policemen,
acting on a tip that Tomias was soliciting customers for sex with his stable of
women, some of them minors, conducted an entrapment operation.
Police Officers Nestor Miotan and Raul Miranda, disguising
themselves as customers, went to the videoke bar at Regent Pearl, Alijis,
Bacolod, where Tomias was known to hang out.
They ordered beer at the bar and Tomias approached their
table and asked if they wanted to have sex with his girls for P250 each. The two
cops agreed, and Tomias instructed them to go to the nearby D’ Hacienda Motel
and wait for him to bring the girls.
The two policemen proceeded to D’ Hacienda Motel and Tomias
arrived in a motorcycle with two girls riding with him, one of whom told them
she was only 15 years old.
At that point the policemen announced that they were police
officers and arrested Tomias and the two girls.
Charges were then filed against Tomias for violation of Republic Act 7610,
the law on Special Protection of Children against child abuse, exploitation and
discrimination. – Gilbert Bayoran
