Corona prosecutor denies owning P15-M house and lot in QC

A spokesperson for the House prosecution team in the impeachment trial of Chief Justice Renato Corona on Monday denied a newspaper report saying that he owns a P15-million house and lot in Quezon City.   Marikina Rep. Romero Quimbo, one of the prosecution’s spokesmen, said he does not have any property at the Varsity Hills in Loyola Heights, contrary to what was reported by the broadsheet The Daily Tribune on Monday.   “This is just part of the squid tactics and black propaganda. Bawat Lunes, may paninirang bago,” he said at a press briefing.   The newspaper report said Quimbo acquired the three-storey house located at a prime location in a “ritzy” village sometime last year.   Quimbo said that the publication of the report “constitutes libel.”   “I wish the writer displayed more diligence. I could have readily showed to that individual that it [the report] is pure hogwash,” he said.   It was also The Daily Tribune that ran a story on lead public prosecutor Niel Tupas Jr.’s supposed P50-million “mansion” at Xavierville Subdivision in Quezon City weeks ago.   Tupas admitted that he bought a house in the same subdivision last year, although he clarified that the property is worth only P14 million. — Andreo C. Calonzo/KBK, GMA News