Businessman Robert
John Sobrepena, chairman of Camp John Hay Development Corp., has been
cleared of charges of estafa filed in a Pasay City court by Arnel Casanova,
president of the state-run Bases Conversion and Development Authority.
Pasay RTC judge Pedro De Leon Gutierrez ruled
that contrary to Casanova’s claim that CJHDevco had reneged on its rental
obligations as longtime private partner, it was actually a slew of
factors—mostly traceable to BCDA—that led to a deferral of the lease
payments on this ex-US military base once known as Camp John Hay.
