individual’ purchasers of portions of the land are with
the 1st Defendant who never remitted a dime to the
Petitioner who is the owner of the land.
Witness also stated that investigation further revealed
that the Petitioner entered into and signed a
Memorandum of Understanding (MOU Exhibit “F”)
with the 1st Defendant through his company, the 2nd
Defendant. He said no clause in the Memorandum of
Understanding (MOU) allowed the 1st and 2nd
Defendant to sell bare land to anybody and stated
further that investigation revealed that contrary to the
Memorandum of Understanding, the 1st Defendant sold
portion of the Petitioners’ land without their consent
and did not remit
the proceed
to them but
misappropriated same, and that in the course of
investigation, the 1st Defendant was confronted with all
these facts and documents, and it was then that it was
discovered that the 2nd and 3rd Defendants belong to the
1st
Defendant;
neither
the
Memorandum
of
Understanding nor the sale agreement empowered the
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