MANILA, Philippines ? (UPDATE) Senator Manuel Villar Jr. profited over P400 million from payment of road right of way and in some instances overpriced zonal values as a result of his real estate properties cutting through the C5 Road extension project, the lawyer of Senator Ana Consuelo Madrigal said.

Madrigal, who filed an ethics complaint against Villar, had claimed that he deliberately sought the redesign and rerouting of the project so that he could profit from it.

Madrigal?s counsel, Ernesto Francisco, made the revelation when he met with members of civil society on Sunday to seek their support for what he said was not a political matter but an ?issue of corruption.?

And given the amount involved, Francisco said that Villar , who declared his candidacy for president in 2010, was criminally liable for plunder.

Madrigal is set to provide all the details when the Senate, acting as committee of the whole, starts on Monday its investigation into her ethics complaint against Villar by the Senate.

Madrigal will present evidence showing that Villar allegedly caused the double funding for the P200 million-C5 road extension in the 2008 national budget and that he diverted the road to benefit his real estate interests.

Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile said the hearing would push through because the Supreme Court did not issue a temporary restraining order and only asked the committee of the whole to respond to the petition of Villar and his allies to stop the proceedings.

?We were not prohibited by the Supreme Court, so we will hold the trial [on Monday],'' Enrile told radio station dzBB.

The Senate minority bloc questioned before the high court the rules adopted by the committee of the whole, which were allegedly devised to convict Villar.

On Sunday, minority bloc members--Senate Minority Floor Leader Aquilino Pimentel Jr., and Joker Arroyo -- questioned the haste to put Villar on trial.

At a briefing for civil society members in Makati City, Francisco explained through a power point presentation the evidence that Madrigal was set to present to back up her allegations against Villar.

Among those who attended were Leah Navarro from the Black and White Movement and Lito Banayo, a Palace official during the Estrada administration.

?The original C5 extension road was supposed to cross only NIA in Parañaque and not Las Piñas,? Francisco said.

While showing the slides, Francisco said that because the road was diverted to pass through Las Piñas, it acquired an additional cost of P710.9 million.

And out of this new cost, P350 million was alloted as payment for road right of way, he said.

In sum, the evidence showed the C5 extension road that Villar allegedly diverted passed through 18 lots from two segments of the C5 extension road.

These included 16 lots from the Las Piñas-Parañaque road link and two lots from the Multinational Village-Sucat road link.

The 16 lots from the Las Piñas-Parañaque road link covered 35 hectares from Golden Haven Memorial Park and 50 hectares from Adelfa Properties, owned by Villar and his wife, Las Piñas City Representative Cynthia Villar.

So far, Villar had received only P136.7 million for the Adelfa and Golden Haven lots and still had a balance of P84.6 million.

In total, Villar was to get around P210 million for this transaction.

But Francisco said there could be more Villar lots that benefited in this Las Piñas-Parañaque link as he said he was still in the process of scrutinizing nine roads there.

Of the 16 lots in the Las Piñas-Parañaque road link, he said that three of four Villar lots along Real Street in Perpetual Village were sold at a whopping P13,300 per square meter. He said this was the ?bulk? of the 16 lots in the link.

?We have a document to show that most of the Golden Haven Memorial Park and Adelfa Properties were sold to the government at a zonal valuation of P13,300 while the other lots were sold to the government from P1,000 to P4,000 zonal valuation,? he said.

Francisco said one of the three overpriced lots was sold at P78 million.

He said that by 2006, Public Works Secretary Hermogenes Ebdane wrote President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo asking for the construction of a new C5 road extension that would ?run from South Luzon Expressway to Multinational Avenue to Sucat Road and will connect Las Piñas-Parañaque Road all the way to Coastal Road.?

Francisco said Villar was able to sell two lots from the Multinational Avenue-Sucat road link.