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Sunday, September 07, 2003
Ilusorio widow sues kids for husband's 'murder'
By Benjamin B. Pulta
MURDER charges were filed before the Department of Justice (DOJ) over the weekend by the widow of the late Marcos crony and lawyer Potenciano Ilusorio against one of the billionaire's children.
In a 9-page complaint, Erlinda Kalaw Ilusorio, Potenciano's estranged wife, said Potenciano's daughter Sylvia Ilusorio-Yap, along with unidentified John and Jane Does, should be held liable for Potenciano's death two years ago in a Batangas farm.
Another daughter, Erlinda Ilusorio-Bildner, the widow claimed, "helped" Sylvia but was not named outright in the rap sheet.
The widow Erlinda and the three of the six known Ilusorio children, Sylvia Ilusorio-Yap, Erlinda Ilusorio-Bildner and Maximo Ilusorio, are locked in a bitter dispute over Potenciano's estate, estimated to be valued over P2 billion.
In her complaint, the widow claims Sylvia "falsified death certificates" as well as failed to provide help for the dying patriarch which led to the latter's death on June 28, 2001.
The widow says that a therapist, Jovita Quimson, was promised compensation by Sylvia to keep quiet about she knows about Potenciano's death.
The Ilusorio widow earlier lost a habeas corpus suit she filed with the Court of Appeals against the Ilusorio children, where she claimed her husband was forcibly taken away from their residence in Antipolo in 1999 by the three siblings shortly after he was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease.
Ilusorio's remains were admitted at 6:12 a.m. at the San Juan de Dios Hospital in Pasay City on June 28, 2001. Earlier reports said the death certificate indicated he died "while on the way" to San Juan de Dios, at 6 a.m. He was cremated soon afterwards with the widow informed a day after the services.
Report also said Maximo and Ilusorio's private physician signed the death certificate issued by the Pasay City Hall marking the civil status of the deceased under "others" instead of "married."
Potenciano Ilusorio availed of a compromise agreement with the government by testifying and providing documents on Marcos' ill-gotten wealth, along with other Marcos cronies like Jose Yao Campos, media magnate Roberto Benedicto, food and beverage tycoon Lucio Tan, Bienvenido Tantoco, Antonio Floreindo, Raymund Feliciano, Jose Armando Eduque, Jose Bengzon, the Argana family, Roberto and Marilyn Abling, Anthony Lee, Andres Siochi, Antonio Martel, Melquiadez Gutierrez, Rafael Bengzon, Enrique-Panlilio families, Enrique Razon and Jesus Vergara.
Ilusorio started his law practice shortly after earning his Law, Banking and Finance degrees from the University of the Philippines in 1930 and New York University in 1940.
His links to the Marcoses were cemented when he founded the Philippine Overseas Telecommunications Corporation, which later became the conglomerate known as the Philippine Communications Satellite Corporation.
(September 7, 2003 issue)
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