The following is an excerpt from an ABS-CBN website story quoting the STAR, “Taiwan investors to take legal action to retake SBGCC golf course” that appeared in more or less the same form in the various newspapers in the first two weeks of July 2007.
“Taiwanese investors who were ejected by the Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority [SBMA] are set to file action to restore to their possession the Subic Bay Golf and Country Club and P10-million worth of personal properties and valuables seized during the June 8 takeover the facility, their lawyer said on Saturday.
“Lawyer Vic Millora, who is representing the Taiwanese investors, said the Regional Trial Court of Olongapo City has set July 13 as the hearing for their additional petition to stop the SBMA from taking over the disputed facility.
“We will expect a mini war to erupt in the free zone once we get a court order, we will seek assistance of the police to retake the facility,” Millora told The STAR in an interview at the Sulo Hotel.
“He said the argument presented by SBMA that they were ejected because they were not able to pay rental and whether they like it or not they will have to obey the courts has no legal basis.
“It’s very basic even in house rental that you cannot just eject your tenant without court order,” he said.”
