By: Ronnel W. Domingo - 01:05 AM May
23, 2017
Sagittarius Mines Inc. yesterday
denied “continuing malicious reports” about Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez
III having any financial interest in the company.
Roy D. Antonio, corporate linkages
manager at SMI, said the company was duty bound to do so “in light of several
continuing and malicious reports from certain quarters.”
“(SMI) formally and unequivocally
states that (Dominguez) does not have nor has he ever had any financial or
other interest in the corporation,” Antonio said. “This is an incontrovertible
fact, which is supported by the required filings submitted by the corporation
to pertinent government agencies as required by law.”
Supporters of ousted Environment and
Natural Resources Secretary Regina Lopez, including the environmentalist
alliance Alyansa Tigil Mina (ATM), has been accusing several prominent people
of having mining interests and as being behind efforts that blocked her
confirmation at the Commission on Appointments last month.
Mining companies have, for their
part, lamented what they called the impartiality of the mine audit ordered by
Lopez, noting that antimining activists like ATM took part in the audit teams.
Last February, Lopez announced the
cancellation of the environmental clearance certificate for SMI’s planned
$5.9-billion Tampakan copper-gold project in South Cotabato.
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