Retired Supreme Court Justice Antonio Carpio on Friday denied that his family owned developments in Boracay Island, according to Ivan Mayrina’s report on “24 Oras.”
Carpio issued the remark after President Rodrigo Duterte claimed that the Department of Environment and Natural Resources found developments in Boracay Island belonging to his family.
According to Carpio, his grandmother had farmland in Boracay Island which was later passed down their family.
“My grandmother, who was widowed at a young age, had farmland in Boracay Island in the late 1910s. She had the land titled under the Torrens system from 1927 to 1932,” Carpio said.
“The farmland was inherited by her seven children, whose share in the land were in turn inherited by their own children,” he added.
However, he said he and his siblings had already sold most of their land.
“My immediate family of seven siblings sold most of our land to realty developers, who are developing the land on their own. No one in my family is part of any real estate development in Boracay Island,” he said.
Duterte said he has ordered the Department of Agrarian Reform to subject the pieces of property to land reform.—Joahna Lei Casilao/LDF, GMA News
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