AFTER suing her estranged husband Leodegreco “Greco” Sanchez and his rumored live-in girlfriend Maricel Raffinan Gregory for concubinage, suspended Assistant Cebu City Prosecutor Mary Ann Castro now wants to manage his properties.
Castro filed a petition before the Regional Trial Court seeking her appointment as administrator of Greco’s properties worth more than P100 million.
She said Greco is incapable of managing and administering all his properties–both real and personal–so it is “necessary” for the court to appoint her as the administrator.
“Sanchez, on the basis of the medical findings of expert professionals, is no longer in his full control of mental and psychological faculties,” read Castro’s petition, which she filed in court last April 7.
Castro and Greco, son of the late vice governor Gregorio Sanchez Jr., married in a Muslim rite last Aug. 18.
Barely two months later, they separated after Greco left Castro’s house in Talisay City last November since he could no longer bear her treatment of him.
Castro said Greco has been hooked on illegal drugs since he was 17 years old. Since then, he has been in and out of rehabilitation, she said.
“Chronic drug addict”
Dr. David Baron, chief of the New Horizon Treatment and Rehabilitation Center, issued a certification, stating that Greco is a “chronic drug addict who needs lifetime treatment process.”
Last August, Judge Macaundas Hadjirasul ordered Greco’s release from the rehabilitation center since he could not sanction the latter’s “indefinite” confinement.
After his release, Greco reportedly wanted “an opportunity to live his Muslim life to the fullest and guidance” by asking the prosecutor to marry him.
“Willing to live life with him and give him the chance he so badly needed, the petitioner surrendered to Mr. Sanchez’s beg for love and we got married,” said Castro.
A week after their marriage, Castro, however, observed “something unnatural” about Greco like going home very late at night.
Last Aug. 26, Greco underwent a psychological evaluation, which showed his “psychological incapacity” to fulfill his marital obligations.
Castro said she also caught Greco sniffing shabu in their farm in Tuburan, Cebu last Oct. 3.
That is why she believes Sanchez is incapable of administering all his real and personal properties, including his share in the family-owned Lactobiotics Worldwide Corp., Bantay Radyo stations and other real properties that Greco and his sisters Grecilda Zaballero and Gerlyda Spiller co-own.
“The properties will likely diminish, if not entirely perish, unless an administratix is appointed,” Castro said in her petition.
Not his ‘legal wife’
Greco, in his reply to the concubinage complaint filed by Castro, said the prosecutor is “not my legal wife” because his previous marriage to Virginia Magnase-Sanchez has not been annulled.
Greco said it was Castro who arranged their marriage in a Muslim rite.
He said she made him sign the certificate of conversion to Islam last June 14, while he was still inside the rehabilitation center.
Greco said Castro married him because she wanted to take control of his properties.
“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,” he said.
Greco said he was shocked when he learned that Castro made the annotation of a notice of adverse claim not only to his properties, but also to those of his siblings.