PROSECUTOR Mary Ann Castro has filed criminal charges against her estranged husband Leodegreco Sanchez and his rumored live-in girlfriend Maricel Raffinan Gregory.
Castro filed the complaint before the Office of the Cebu City Prosecutor accusing Sanchez and Gregory of concubinage.
“Before his marriage with me, respondents Greco and Maricel were living together for a number of years in illicit relations,” said Castro in her affidavit.
Castro and Greco, who married in a Muslim rite on Aug. 18, 2015, are living separately after he left the prosecutor’s house in Talisay City in November last year since he could no longer bear the prosecutor’s treatment of him.
But Castro insisted that she and Sanchez are “legally married.”
On Oct. 3, 2015, Sanchez left their house in Talisay supposedly to visit his sons from Gregory. Sanchez, however, never returned to Castro’s house. The prosecutor later learned that Sanchez and Gregory were living together.
Replying to the charges, Sanchez said Castro is “not my legal wife” because his previous marriage to Virginia Magnase-Sanchez still subsists.
Sanchez said Castro arranged their marriage in a Muslim rite although his previous marriage is still subsisting.
The prosecutor allegedly made Sanchez to sign the certificate of conversion to Islam on June 14, 2015 while he was still inside the rehabilitation center.
“Taking advantage of my mental and psychological health, she (Castro) required me to sign the certificate of conversion and she apparently used it as a requisite to my becoming a Muslim for the purpose of marrying her,” read Sanchez’s judicial counter-affidavit.
Sanchez admitted that he and Gregory are living together with their three children.
Sanchez said the prosecutor married him merely because she allegedly wants to take part of the properties he inherited from his father, the late Cebu vice governor Gregorio Sanchez.
“A week after we got married, she already demanded and insisted that her name be annotated on all our family properties, which I inherited from my late father,” said Sanchez.
Sanchez said he was shocked when he learned that Castro made the annotation of a notice of adverse claim not only of his properties, but those of his siblings.
“I felt so embarrassed to my family, particularly my sisters, for utterly despicable kind of woman I was involved in, and who obviously is interested only in coverting my properties,” said Sanchez.