NEGOTIATIONS. Emily Yanson (2nd from left), along with her lawyers, meets with Col. Jaime Santos (left), chief of PNP-SOSIA Enforcement Management Division, at the main office compound of the Yanson Group of Bus Companies in Bacolod City on Tuesday (Aug. 6, 2019). The police re-installed AGNSA security guards at the Bacolod Ceres South Terminal Wednesday and at the main office in Mansilingan village Friday. (Photo courtesy of Raquel Gariando)
BACOLOD CITY -- The supposedly missing corporate documents in the main office of the Yanson Group of Bus Companies, the country’s biggest bus firm, in this city are being secured and kept, according to one of the owners.
Emily Yanson, one of the six siblings involved in the intra-corporate feud, in a press statement on Monday denied the claim of the camp of her younger brother Leo Rey that they are behind the loss of vital corporate papers.
“Why would we ransack our own offices and steal those documents which Leo Rey claims to be missing?” she asked.
The statement added that “as vice president for administration and corporate secretary, it is Emily’s responsibility to secure and keep corporate papers.”
Emily, one of the three Yanson sisters, was among the four siblings, together with Roy, Ricardo Jr., and Celina, who ousted Leo Rey as company president in a special board meeting held on July 7. Matriarch Olivia, 85, and sister Ginette are siding with Leo Rey.
Both Roy and Leo Rey are now claiming the presidency as the court has yet to decide whether the July 7 meeting was legal or not.
On Saturday, lawyer Norman Golez said in a press conference with his client Leo Rey, held at the main office’s boardroom, that about 3,000 official receipts and certificates of registration (OR/CRs) of the company vehicles and 800 land titles were found missing.
Filing cabinets in the legal department were left empty, drawers of employees’ desks were found open, and some computers were also missing.
The camp of Leo Rey discovered the alleged looting when they entered the main office compound after the AGNSA Negros Security Agency blue guards were reinstalled on Friday.
At dawn on Friday, policemen under the command of Col. Henry Biñas, director of Bacolod City Police Office, entered the main office compound to assist the Philippine National Police (PNP) Supervisory Office on Security and Investigation Agencies (SOSIA) in re-installing the AGNSA security guards while Emily and her two other siblings were holed up inside one of the buildings.
Emily said they later “decided to leave the compound to protect the lives of their employees” while Celina added “(t)he only reason we left our offices last Friday is the fact that we were exhausted already and we want to go back to our respective homes.”
Golez said earlier the PNP has completely turned over the facilities of the main office to Leo Rey as the “rightful president”.
However, Emily stressed that Leo Rey’s camp may have “occupied some of our offices and terminals but command and management of the company still rests on us, majority board members and the real owners of Vallacar Transit Inc. (VTI)”.
Days after July 7, Roy dismissed the services of AGNSA Negros Security Agency and hired AY-76 Security Specialists as the replacement.
On August 2, Col. Michael John Dubria, chief of PNP-SOSIA, issued an order “finding the deployment of security guards of AY-76 Security Specialists Inc. at the properties of VTI, particularly at the south and north terminal and its main office, all in Bacolod City, not in compliance with the provisions of the PNP-Standard Operating Procedure No. 007-08.”
Col. Jaime Santos, chief of PNP-SOSIA Enforcement Management Division, first served on Tuesday the re-installation order for AGNSA at the Bacolod Ceres South Terminal, but policemen were able to enter the premises only early Wednesday.
Vallacar Transit is one of the five bus firms under the Yanson Group, operating mainly in the Visayas and Mindanao.
The company operates a total of 4,000 buses with 18,000 employees, and is considered the biggest in the country. (PNA)
