A PROPERTY management company is believed to have defied a court order when its security personnel fired warning shots against residents trying to follow a ruling allowing them to occupy their condominium units in Makati.
Residents of Infinity Tower Condominium were returning to their units in accordance with a court decision released on March 16 this year, when a guard of the building pointed a gun at them and fired two shots on the floor in an apparent bid to stop them from doing so.
Infinity Tower Condominium is the subject of a legal dispute between a number of parties over the management of the building and the deprivation of condominium-unit title owners to occupy their property.
Some of the unit owners were ejected from the condominium as a result of the dispute and were denied access to their property by Quadrillon for almost five years.
Complaints were filed against the production and use of fraudulent documents to favor Quadrillion after a probe and upon the recommendation of the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI).
Last year Branch 62 of the Makati Regional Trial Court (MRTC) issued a ruling holding a businessman of falsification of documents that made it appear Quadrillion was the legal property manager of Infinity Tower.
“On November 10, 2017, a decision was rendered by the MRTC’s Branch 62 holding Joaquin Rodriguez Sr. ‘guilty beyond reasonable doubt’ for the falsification of the property management agreement, which is the basis for the issuance for the temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction [April 11, 2013] in favor of Optimax [that made Quadrillion deceivingly appear as the legal property manager],” Makati Branch 147 Judge Ronald Moreno stated in his decision of March 6, 2018. “This supervening event, said decision now puts doubt in the authenticity of the property management agreement from which the writ of preliminary injunction was based.”
Moreno granted the motion to lift and dissolve the writ of preliminary injunction used as basis for Quadrillion to gain authority over property management of the condominium in a court order dated April 11, 2013.
Despite the latest court ruling, however, Quadrillon continues to manage the condominium and deny unit owners access to their property.