A top official of Clark International Airport Corporation (CIAC) is in “hot water” after he was reportedly linked in the disappearance of more than P2 million worth of power line cables inside the Diosdado Macapagal International Airport recently.
CIAC president Victor Jose Luciano allegedly issued permits allowing four personnel of ACP Manpower identified as Cesar Mayo, Jose Canete III, Nilo Padua and Rolly Padua to enter the premises of the aviation complex.
Rey Catacutan, CIAC vice president for operations, said he caught the four personnel digging up underground cables inside the complex. He said most of the cables were stolen at the “high security” runway and taxiway of DMIA.
According to Catacutan, Luciano should be held liable, administratively and criminally for issuing permits to ACP Manpower personnel to enter restricted areas inside the airport.
It will be recalled that in 2009, the same manpower firm was also authorized by Luciano to demolish old buildings within the complex for scraps purportedly for the benefit of Aeta tribal folk.
A case against Luciano on this controversy has remained pending before the Office of the Ombudsman.
Catacutan said he had already informed President Benigno Aquino about the incident. He also submitted to the CIAC board last Friday several reports of the CIAC security and engineering departments on the reported pilferage.
He furnished the media copies of two letters allegedly handwritten by Luciano, authorizing the four personnel of ACP Manpower, owned by one Josie Gomez, to enter certain areas within the complex.
One undated letter was addressed to “security” allowing the four suspects one-week access to “Blocker 4” to do “ground maintenance.”
Another handwritten letter reportedly issued last September was addressed to a certain Chon Tee, also asking him to allow the same four persons to “assist in clearing operations.”
Catacutan said Tee was a Taiwanese farmer cultivating watermelons in a lot within the aviation complex.
He said the first letter was apparently written last July.
“As the security department is under me, I checked reports about their presence in the farm area last September and I personally caught the four in the act of digging up cables. The four then showed me Luciano’s authorization letter and claimed they had been told to show such letter to anyone who could question their operation there,” Catacutan said.
In a report last Sept. 9, Ruel Angeles, chief of the CIAC engineering, said the cables were pulled out from a manhole and some of them were found at the DMIA’s guard post apparently for pickup.
The report said two kinds of cables were missing: one kind was about 275 meters long and the other 900 meters. The cables were valued at P2.6 million.
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