Ma sues own son for estafa over land row
By Julie M. Aurelio
Philippine Daily Inquirer
01/23/2009
MANILA, Philippines – An elderly woman has filed an estafa case (Estafa is an act with intent to defraud) against her own son after alleging that he transferred to his name two land titles worth P2 million without paying the supposed value of the properties.
In a complaint filed before the Quezon City prosecutors’ office Friday, Portal Rosales claimed that she did not receive any amount from her son, but the deeds of sale from her son stipulated the properties as worth P2.45 million.
Rosales, 62, alleged that her son Alberto proposed to have the two properties – a residential lot in Quezon City and an agricultural land in San Juan, Batangas – be transferred to his name “to avoid heavy taxes and to hold them in trust for his family.”
“We were disappointed that we were deceived into believing that he meant good for all of us – that he would merely transfer the properties to avoid heavy taxes and hold them in trust for the family,” she claimed in her complaint.
The complaint affidavit will be raffled off to a prosecutor who would conduct a preliminary investigation on the complaint.
Alberto is now an American citizen and has residences both in the Philippines and in Louisiana, USA.
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