Globe Asiatique’s Lee remains on PNP most wanted list

Globe Asiatique developer Delfin Lee.

MANILA, Philippines—Despite the Court of Appeals’ dismissal of a syndicated estafa case against Globe Asiatique Realty Holdings Corp. head Delfin Lee, he remains on the list of the Philippine National Police’s most wanted fugitives.
“He’s still on the wanted list and we are waiting for the official transmittal of the resolution of the Court of Appeals,” PNP spokesperson Rueben Theodore Sindac said Friday.

Sindac said that Lee, who along with four others is accused of using fake documents and ghost borrowers to obtain about P7 billion in loans from the government Pag-IBIG Fund for Globe Asiatique housing projects in Pampanga, is one of the “Big Five Fugitives” in the country.

Criminal Investigation and Detection Group spokesperson Chief Inspector Elizabeth Jasmin told INQUIRER.net that the decision of the appellate court special 15th division on Lee’s case was not yet final and executory.

“(But) once we receive the resolution of CA, we will direct the units (Directorate for Intelligence and CIDG) to delist him,” Sindac said.

Meantime, De Lima said there was no decision yet to quash the arrest warrant issued by the Pampanga regional trial court.

The Pampanga court issued an arrest warrant against Lee in May 2012 for syndicated estafa in connection with the alleged housing loan scam.

In August last year, President Benigno Aquino III offered a reward of P2 million each for the arrest of the “Big Five” composed of Lee and retired Army Major General Jovito Palparan, former Palawan governor Joel Reyes and his brother, former Coron Mayor Mario Reyes, and former Dinagat Island representative Ruben Ecleo Jr.

In May, CIDG chief Superintendent Francisco Uyami Jr. said his group had formed 17 “tracker teams” to intensify the manhunt operations against them.

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