Friday, April 04, 2008 (Philippines)

IN CEBU, security guards watch the rice shipment found in a Mandaue City warehouse. (Sun.Star Photo/Arni Aclao) BUSINESSMAN Regan King wants the Regional Trial Court (RTC) to quash the search warrant used in the raid against the Mandaue City warehouse containing his rice stocks. Cebu City Councilor Gerry Carillo, in his private capacity as a practicing lawyer, filed the motion to quash before the sala of RTC Executive Judge Fortunato de Gracia. The motion, he said in an interview yesterday, rests on two grounds—that the RTC did not have jurisdiction over the issue when it issued the search warrant and that King had the authority to operate the raided warehouse. [full story]