CYBERCRIME 2 face cybercrime charges over feud with lawyer
The Office of the Cebu City Prosecutor has indicted two people who allegedly besmirched the reputation of the late lawyer Goering George “Jing” Paderanga, Sr. over a road right-of-way dispute along F. Ramos St., Cebu City.
Prosecutor Fatima Maadil found evidence to charge Lawrence McClay and Lakhiram Mirpuri with violation of the Cybercrime Prevention Act of 2012.
“The letter contains false, public and malicious imputation of a crime or of a vice or defect, which brought great dishonor and discredit to the complainant’s reputation,” read Maadil’s resolution.
Barely a week before he and his son were shot dead outside their residence, Paderanga, Sr. sued six people who falsely accused him of extorting P15 million from the developer and contractor of Ultima Prime Residences and for being the reason for the delay of the completion of the condominium project.
Apart from McClay and Mirpuri, also named respondents were Rafael King, president of J. King and Sons Co. Inc., and Fuente Triangle Realty Development Corp.; Manuel Mendoza, presi- dent and chairman of the board of Monocrete Construction Phil., Inc.; Rose Patio, project manager on-site of Monocrete Construction; Josh Beltran, Fuente Triangle sales manager.
Security guard Jonathan Sanchez shot dead Paderanga and his son, Gerik Ceasar, also a lawyer, outside their law firm on F. Ramos St. last Dec. 22, 2016.
Gerick, 37, succumbed to a gunshot wound in the nape barely three days after the shooting.
Goering Sr., 62, who died on the spot after getting shot thrice, was the husband of Judge Sylva Paderanga of the Regional Trial Court Branch 16.
Police arrested Sanchez in his parents’ house in Barangay Talamban, Cebu City.
Sanchez pleaded not guilty to murder during his arraignment before Judge Anacleto Debalucos of the Regional Trial Court Branch 17 last Oct. 2.
In 2014, the Paderangas filed a civil complaint before the Regional Trial Court against Ultima Residences and its contractor, Monocrete Construction, for damaging the private road, alley gutter, water drainage and vehicles of nearby residents.
In her order dated July 31, 2015, Regional Trial Court Judge Ma. Lynna Adviento issued the writ of the preliminary injunction stopping Ultima Prime Residences from continuing its project “until proof that mandated safety measures are undertaken to protect the life and property” of the petitioners and residents near the construction site.
In the resolution, Prosecutor Maadil found evidence to charge McClay and Mirpuri, both condominium owners, with violating the Cybercrime Prevention Act of 2012.
McClay was the author of the letter while Mirpuri forwarded it to about 100 people via email.
On the other hand, the prosecution dismissed for lack of evidence the complaint against the other respondents.
Security guard Jonathan Sanchez shot dead lawyer Goering George Paderanga and his son, Gerik Ceasar, also a lawyer, outside their law firm on F. Ramos St. last Dec. 22, 2016.