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Saturday, June 24, 2006
PFF, NCRFA feud may reach courts
By Frank C. Calapre
Sun.Star Correspondent
MANILA – The dispute between the Philippine Football Federation and its affiliate National Capital Region Football Association may end up in court, NCRFA president Jose Vito B. Borromeo said yesterday after the office of PFF president Johnny Romualdez at the Philsports Complex in Pasig City was closed, preventing NCRFA accountants from examining business records and corporate books of the PFF.
Accountant Bonifacio Santiago, Angel Ramon Jose and Robbie Sandejas accompanied by two barangay tanods of Orambo, Pasig, were told by Philsports security guard Ruby Aducot that PFF secretary Jennifer Hernandez told her last Thursday that the PFF office was to be closed the following day. There was no reason given for the closure, Hernandez said.
Borromeo said the refusal of the PFF to open the financial records hints at possible anomalous transactions of Romualdez during his tenure since 2003.
ast option
“I have no other recourse now. The court is our last option. It’s not really good for a sports association to involve the courts in any problem but in a situation like this when you don’t have a choice then we have to do it,” said Borromeo, whose son Ali plays for the national team.
Borromeo, through lawyer Rommel A. Frias, wrote a letter to Romualdez on June 15, 2006, asking him to extend courtesy to three representatives, who will inspect the financial statements of the PFF for the last three years on June 23, 2006.
He said his suspension aroused when Romualdez showed a comparative expenses of the PFF from 2003 to 2005 that reached P88 million during the PFF Congress last Feb. 25 in Iloilo City.
“I really had some doubts about it. The PFF spent P27 million in 2003, then P25 million in 2004 and P36 million in 2005. There are discrepancies in the records. Somebody told me also about it,” said Borromeo.
However, records also showed that Romualdez wrote a letter to the NCRFA on June 21, 2006 informing Borromeo that he couldn’t grant the request because it failed to cite any reason to justify the opening of the financial records.
Corporate law
“Corporate law will bear us that you should indicate the purpose for which such an inspection will be conducted. We would like to know why your representatives will inspect the PFF books. Until such time that we receive the said information, we shall be unable to accommodate your representatives,” Romualdez said in his letter.
Borromeo argued that corporate laws empower any member of the organization to be furnished with such documents anytime.
“We are original incorporators so we can ask for it anytime,” Borromeo said.
He said the NCRFA has the backing of more than half of the 28 accredited members of the PFF and they will do everything to clear up the suspicion of corruption within the organization.
Based on the comparative data released by the PFF in February, it received P14.9 million from FIFA, the world governing body for football, and another P2.1 million from the Asian Football Confederation. While P2.3 million from Asean Football Federation as well as P14 million from other private and government sources make a grand total of P34.4 million for 2005 alone.
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