The number of years Supreme Court (SC) Justice Marvic Leonen failed to file his statements of assets, liabilities and net worth (SALN) are much more compared to ousted chief justice Maria Lourdes Serenom, lawyer Larry Gadon said on Thursday (May 6).
Gadon pointed this out after getting hold of copies of Leonen’s SALNs based on documents submitted to the Presidential Communications Operations Office (PCOO).
“Now it is confirmed, AJ Marivic Leonen failed to submit complete SALNs when he was teaching in the University of the Philippines,” said Gadon in a statement.
In a letter to PCOO Sec. Martin Andanar dated July 9, 2018, PCOO Assistant Secretary and Freedom of Information (FOI) Program Director Kristian Ablan indicated that the Office of the Ombudsman (OMB) only has Leonen’s SALNs for the years 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2010 and 2011.
“In the following documents obtained thru FOI, it appears that AJ Marivic Leonen failed to submit several years of SALNs. His case is even worse than Atty Lourdes Sereno,” said Gadon.
The lawyer noted Leonen, who is facing an impeachment complaint before the House of Representatives due his lacking SALNs, began teaching in 1989 at the University of the Philippines (UP) where he later became a dean at UP College of Law in 2008.
Leonen applied then got appointed in November 2012 as SC justice.
Sereno got removed as chief justice after the SC voted 8-6 on May 11, 2018 in favor of the quo warranto petition of Solicitor General Jose Calida who argued that her appointment at the high tribunal should have been voided from the start due to her failure to file SALNs when she was teaching at UP.
Source: Latest Politics News Today (Politics.com.ph)
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