Dr. Adel Samson, chairman of the Philippine National Shooting Association (PNSA) Moving Target Aggrupation (shotgun) Committee, is willing to cooperate with the investigation into the “missing” P1.93-million clay targets that were stored at the Philippine Sports Commission shooting range compound in Muntinlupa.
“Rest assured that the undersigned will cooperate, to the best of his ability, in the conduct of your investigation should that be necessary,” Samson wrote last May 12 in response to the demand letter sent by former PNSA president Luis “Chavit” Singson, Raul Arambulo and Eduardo Fernandez regarding the whereabouts of the equipment.
Through the Divina Law firm headed by Atty. Nilo Divina, the Dean of the UST College of Law, Singson, the current PNSA honorary chairman, Arambulo and Fernandez demanded last May 4 that the MTA Committee account for the clays that were stored in two containers inside the PSC property that “disappeared.”
Aside from Samson, also named in the letter were PNSA secretary general Veneranda “Iryne” Garcia and Jerry Sun, who are both MTA Committee and PNSA board members. They were given five days to reply to the demand letter or face possible legal and other consequences.
The equipment was bought by the personal money of the shotgun shooters through the PNSA, with the aid of the PSC, that were supposed to be used by them for the development of the sport.
The complainants also demanded the MTA Committee to present the MTA passbook placed under the name of Garcia where P343,231.21 was deposited for the use in purchasing the equipment of the shotgun shooters.
Instead of responding to the demand letter, Garcia and Sun tapped the services of the Oreta and Sangalang Law Firm to represent them on the issue.
This prompted Singson, considered the godfather of local shooting, Fernandez and Arambulo to formally write the PNSA board headed by Isabela Rep. Faustino Michael Carlos Dy III, the House Youth and Sports Committee chairman, last May 19 urging it to conduct a formal investigation into the matter.
Similar to the demand letter, copies of the latest correspondence were likewise furnished to the top officials of the Philippine Olympic Committee and the Philippine Sports Commission.
