Makati condo row HIDDEN AGENDA By Mary Ann Ll. Reyes (The Philippine Star) | Updated July 31, 2013 - 12:00am 0 4 googleplus0 0 After more than half a year of being deprived of their respective condominium properties, a number of unit owners of Infinity Tower Condominium finally were able to set foot on their units. The Makati City regional trial court just recently allowed several owners of 83 condominium units in Infinity to enter their property. Makati RTC Branch 139 Executive Judge Benjamin Pozon issued a temporary restraining order against Quadrillion Property Development Corp. (QPDC) and its representatives, namely Joaquin Rodriguez Sr., Melesa Chua of CDC Holdings Inc.; and Joaquin Rodriguez Jr. who allegedly were behind a move to prevent the condominium unit owners entering the very building where their properties are located. Pozon said that the property administrator “should never be provided rights higher than its owners.” Quadrillion claims to be the property manager of Infinity Tower Condominium. The decision, althoughmonths late, was welcomed by the condominium unit owners as a positive development that upheld their constitutional rights over their properties. Earlier, QPDC based on a writ of preliminary injunction, ejected the occupants of the condominium units and barricaded the entrances and exits of the condo building allegedly to the disadvantage of unit owners who had their units being rented out to various clients. Business ( Article MRec ), pagematch: 1, sectionmatch: 1 The units owners said this move of Quadrillion allegedly went beyond the call of a property administrator as it encroached on the former’s rights and jeopardized the businesses of the same owners as business operations completely stopped. To protect their reputation and relationship with their clients, the unit owners had to rent and transfer their business guests to various condominium units elsewhere in Makati City. For more than half a year, QPDC and its representatives allegedly have used armed security guards, and barbed wires, to block condominium unit owners from entering the building premises. This prompted the unit owners to seek a TRO, which eventually was granted by the court. Pozon initially released a 72-hour temporary restraining order last July 24, 2013. On July 26, Makati RTC Judge Ethel V. Mercado-Gutay of Branch 138, extended the TRO to 20 days. The owners of the 83 condominium units finally given access to their condominium units by the Court are: Beccomax, Ascott Hospitality Holdings Inc., Archinet and Seokwhan Hahn, Marvin Elton T. Mendoza, Martin Earl T. Mendoza, Elizabeth T. Mendoza, Manuel S. Mendoza and Marion Emmanuel T. Mendoza. However, reports from the Makati City Police Station stated the security agency supposedly guarding the building allegedly fired gunshots last July 27, scaring off unit owners and their staff who were inside the building at that time. Makati Police personnel and a SWAT team responded to the incident. Not one among the 33 security guards of the agency admitted to the firing, and local police said the guards would be subjected to a paraffin test to determine the shooter
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