Why Arroyo wife sought protection
By Michael Lim Ubac
Inquirer
At the center of the legal battle between spouses Negros Occidental Rep. Ignacio “Iggy” Arroyo and Alicia Arroyo is not only the custody of their child but also the wife’s expressed fear for her life.
Alicia, a former banker and stockbroker who was the first woman and the youngest chair of the Philippine Stock Exchange, sought protection from the Quezon City Regional Trial Court in response to her husband’s petition for joint custody of their 9-year old daughter.
She said the lawmaker,the younger brother of president Macapagal-Arroyo’s husband, Jose Miguel “Mike” Arroyo, abandoned her and their child in June 2006.
Alicia’s plea for the protection order includes the following reasons:
· “In the course of their marriage, she came to know of ‘intimate and sensitive secrets’ about her husband as well as members of his family and close allies, including the mistresses of certain political personalities.
· Being a meber of “the most powerful poitical family in the country, “her husband has” at his disposal police and military personnel, as well as armed bodyguards and back-up vehicles, and has connections in high places” and “almost unlimited resources.”
· Her husband, who used to be “very protective” of his wife and child, “suddenly and surprisingly pulled out their security complement and their drivers.
· With their marriage on the rocks, her husband “surreptitiously” obtained from the National Western Life Insurance Co. a $1 million life insurance policy for her, and “included as beneficiaries his two daughters from a previous marriage” that had been annulled.
· According to Alicia, she can be assassinated at any time by men “acting under the instructions” of her husband.
Burly men
Alicia Arroyo told the court that by the end of June 2006, her husband had pulled out her security detail and reduced the security personnel assigned to their child from four to one, thus exposing them to “serious security threats.”
She said “burly-looking armed men” had been tailing her for months, and provided the court pictures of men supposedly following her car or staking our vacant area across from their conjugal home in La Vista, Quezon city.
She added that “these men would closely stalk” her even when she entered buildings and other prvate places, and that Presidential Security Group vehicles and other “suspicious vehicles” constantly parked I front of the family residence and followed her vehicle whenever she left the house.
On Wednesday, Judge Rosalina L. Luna Pison issued a 30-day court protection order barring Rep. Arroyo from “harassing, annoying, telephoning, contacting, or communicating” with his wife and child.
Pison ordered the lawmaker under pain of contempt of court, a fine and imprisonment of six months, “to stay away at a distance of 100 meters” from Alicia,their daughter, and other family household members wither in their residence,the child’s school, or his wife’s office.
Policy owner
By her account, Alicia Arroyo discovered the insurance policy at about the same time the security detail assigned to her and the child was pulled out.
She claimed she tried to terminate the policy, but was told that only her husband could terminate it as “owner of the policy.”
Reached by phone on Thursday, Rep. Aroyo said Alicia was lying. He declined to comment further, citing “a gag order” from the court which had set the pretrial conference and preliminary conference on March 29.
But he asked the Inquirer to try to secure a copy of the insurance policy. A source, who had asked not to be namedfor fear of being cited in contempt by the cout, said it was Alicia who had applied for the insurance policy and signed it, with her child as the beneficiary.
The source also said the policy lapsed one year.
A copy of the policy obtained by the INQUIRER showed that the beneficiaries of the policy signed on April 25, 2005, were the father (primary beneficiary) and daughter (contingent beneficiary).
A letter to Rep. Arroyo – dated Dec. 29, 2006, and signed by Ana Ramirez of the insurance company’s International Client Service Department – confirmed that the policy lapsed on oct. 24, 2006, “due to the fact that we did not receive the semi-annual premium of $4,760.00.”
The policy showed that Alicia Arroyo had a networth of $2.081 million, the bulk of which was broken into: $225,000 (cash in bank), $1.5 million (real estate) and $400,000 (business interest).
Full-time housewife
Alicia said that after having been “constrained” by her husband to become a full-time housewife” she was suddenly left to shoulder at least P400,000 in monthly expenses.”
However, she said, his purported mistress, whom she identified as Grace Ibuna-Javier was “financially provided for” by him by placing her on the payroll of the Philippine Waterworks Association.”
Alicia said that “just like the mistresses” of her husband’s relatives, his mistresses “frequented” the Arroyo-owned LTA building in Makati City and “spent her afternoons there.”
“And just like the other mistresses,” Alicia said, the lawmaker’s mistress “enjoyed out-of-the country trips.”
Rep. Arroyo, who represents the fifth district of negros Occidental, denied that Ibuna-Javier was his mistress.
But the woman was seen in his company during the birthday party on March 19 of Negros Occidental Gov. Joseph Marañon in Bacolod City.
Some of the Team Unity senatorial candidates as well as local political leaders were among those present at the birthday celebration. Accordig to rep. Arroyo, Ibuna-Javier is “a friend.” (with report from Carla Gomez, Inquire-Visayas.)
“And just like the other mistresses….”
….Lekat, baka madulas si Aleli….masambit pa ang pangalan, kayo rin!
heee^^haw!
Look back to my story about “E” who had a rendezvous with a bigshot who claims relations with Sta. Teresa de Avila (click here and here.)
Iggy Arroyo was with presidential party. After the official visit, our informant said Mr. Bigshot met up with “E” in Lugano, near the border of Italy while the brother also met up with someone who looked like Grace in another place in Europe.
Ellen: · With their marriage on the rocks, her husband “surreptitiously” obtained from the National Western Life Insurance Co. a $1 million life insurance policy for her, and “included as beneficiaries his two daughters from a previous marriage” that had been annulled.
· According to Alicia, she can be assassinated at any time by men “acting under the instructions” of her husband.
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This I can believe. It is very easy for the Pidals to even stop investigation in case she gets killed and the husband naturally becomes the No.1 suspect. In fact, I have known of cases excused easily as suicide even when they are homicide cases because of palakasan, a bad habit that should actually be weeded out especially in Christian Philippines.
Over in the Land of the Fluctuating Yen, murder is murder and nobody is given exception when police do their investigations. In the Philippines, nakakalusot as in the case of a suicide of the son of a prominent political figure that a lot many policemen I know who were were supposed to investigate the case was told to stop the investigation and excuse it as a simple case of suicide even when there was no suicide note and evidences show that it was more a case of homicide.
If Aleli dies, we know for sure she has been murdered by the very person wanting to see her dead even for the insurance bought by the husband on her life with his children by a previous marriage as beneficiaries. Ang bastos at kapal naman ng mukha niyan!!!
Lawmaker? Who? Golly kundi pa namili ng boto, hindi maboboto! Yuck!
Ooops, the above quote actually is not Ellen’s but Ubac’s!
Iggy gambles incessantly, his wife was quoted. That means he is now a gambling addict. There is no medication for this kind of addiction, other than for the person to have no access to money. Buti nga!!! Lalo siyang malulong sa bisyo dahil marami silang pera. Sana, pag wala na ang mga Pidals, bawiin ng susunod na gobyerno ang mga nakurakot nila, and then mas masakit, dahil they may no longer be able to maintain their current lifestyle.
Ellen,
You got lots of suspicious visitors with deceitful sites in the other loops on the philandering IpDyi. Bloggers beware when you log into those loops. Don’t open the suspicious sites of the suspicious bloggers.
Aside from distributing viruses, bugs and worms through those suspicious, it will be a good way for the other party or parties to get your email addies and monitor you. Be sure you have your virus buster and spywares ready. Better have your firewalls activated likewise.
“A copy of the policy obtained by the INQUIRER showed that the beneficiaries of the policy signed on April 25, 2005, were the father (primary beneficiary) and daughter (contingent beneficiary).”
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But this policy is no longer active as it has already lapsed on Oct. 24/06 for non-payment of premiums. So, what’s the use of this policy for Iggy the Piggy?! Wala naman pala siyang makukuha even if Aleli died! Nag-expire na rin ang “period of assasination’ niya, unless there’s another more important reason for such, like forever gagging her on the Pidal account issue! That’s more like it!
A lot of murder cases had taken place due to insurance policy, and mga salarin o masterminds ay iyon mismong mga beneficiaries, usually ay asawa!
Chi,
The Philippines has actually become notoriously known for this kind of insurance scam because a lot many cases of murder for insurance are committed by Japanese in connivance with Filipinos.
People here know that murderers for hire are cheap in the Philippines. Up until the kidney scam became widespread, the price was only about 1,500 pesos. Now, it is about 150,000 equivalent to one kidney!
That is why when some Japanese get into financial trouble, what they do is hire a killer in Manila, send a Japanese employee or friend there to get killed after insuring him/her for big sum of money. Sometimes, they tell Filipinas to agree to be insured and then declare themselves as dead and get a new identity. I had handled a lot many of these cases in the police, and it really made me sick. For the love of money, they would do this kind of thing.
Hindi na ako magtataka kung iyong kapatid ni Pidal ay gagawa ng ganito. Alam naman ng lahat na bum ang ungas!
“You got lots of suspicious visitors with deceitful sites in the other loops on the philandering IpDyi. Bloggers beware when you log into those loops. Don’t open the suspicious sites of the suspicious bloggers.”
ystakei, what do you mean? are THEY tracking each one of US here?
This clan is local version of the Borgias. Shame and scandal and lies and deceit. Unfeeling and greedy and murderous.
I know it’s summer. But may thunder and lightning shoot down from the heavens and strike such devilish characters from the face of the earth.
Too much. Too much already.
Time & time again, the Pidals have great difficulty w/ the truth. Their credibility is so bad & so low that no matter what any of them say & do, they are not able to win over the hearts & minds of the public. The have lost the war on credibility a long time ago.
Each one of them deserve what they get. That is their karma. It looks like the wrath of God is upon them.
Gloria can not even govern. You need credibility to govern.
sanay na pala sila sa kasalaulaan. hintayin natin ang eskandalong sila sila ang nagpapalitan. si grasya kay migel at si glorya kay ignasyo!
lugi si ignasyosa set ap na ito. sariwa pa rin si grasya samantalang amoy imburnal na ang donya gloryang naagnas na ang katawan kahit buhay pa!
nagkabitkabit na, dapat: “lugi si ignasyo sa set ap na ito.”
Mrivera,
Si Grasya ay tiyak na papatulan ni Migel, pero hindi kaya masuka si Ignasyo kay Tianak?! Just a thought, heheh! Salbahe ka dahil talagang lugi si Ignasyo sa set up na ‘yan!
Reyna Elena:
You bet, naka-monitor ka na rin! 😛 Emilio can tell you what to do about the spyware.
chi, okey na bang panghimagas at pang-alis suya ng nararamdaman ang mga adlib na ‘yang hango rin sa kanilang kasalaulaan?
Oks na Oks, Mrivera.
@ystakei,
nakupo yari ako! ek kung minsan nga, kung ano anong napipindot ko sa blog ko, nagkakalokoko na, pano pa kaya pag nilusok ako nang mga tyanak?!
Insurrection (Trojan Horse) is a remote administration tool or remote administration trojan (RAT) as well as a backdoor program that allows an intruder to secretly and remotely access a person’s computer using a client program installed on the intruder’s PC and a server program secretly installed on the victim’s PC. Using the trojan, the intruder is able to control aspects of the victim’s PC, including disabling antivirus and firewall software, browse the victim’s files, upload and download files, and log keystrokes among other unwanted activities.
An insurgency, or insurrection, is an armed uprising, or revolt against an established civil or political authority. Persons engaging in insurgency are called insurgents, and typically engage in regular or guerrilla combat against the armed forces of the established regime, or conduct sabotage and harassment in the land in order to undermine the government’s position as leader.
An insurgency differs from a resistance both in its political overtones and in the nature of the conflict: an insurgency connotes an internal struggle against a standing, established government, whereas a resistance connotes a struggle against invading or occupying foreign forces and their collaborators.