Unitrust depositors, creditors to receive partial payment of their claims in cash starting September 9
The Philippine Deposit Insurance Corporation (PDIC), the Liquidator
of the closed Unitrust Development Bank (Unitrust), announced that it will
start distributing cash payments to the depositors and
creditors of Unitrust starting September 9, 2013. The
cash portion is in partial settlement of the claims of the depositors and
creditors of Unitrust against the assets of the bank.
To
receive the payment, Unitrust depositors and creditors are required to appear
personally or thru a duly authorized representative at the Unitrust Development
Bank Exchange Corner located at the Ground Floor, Exchange Corner Complex
Condominium, Exchange Corner Building, V.A. Rufino St. corner Esteban and
Bolanos Sts., Legaspi Village, Makati City on their designated schedule. The
schedule is based on the list that was published on September 1, 2013 in a
newspaper of general circulation and also posted in the PDIC website, www.pdic.gov.ph. Depositors are required to present two (2) valid
identification documents (IDs) and submit their corresponding duly accomplished
and notarized Release, Waiver and Quitclaim, With Undertaking. Additional
requirements for individual creditors, sole proprietors and corporate creditors
as well as the schedule of cash payments are posted in the PDIC website. The
Release, Waiver and Quitclaim, With Undertaking may also be downloaded from the
website.
PDIC
Executive Vice President Cristina Q. Orbeta of the Receivership and Liquidation
Sector assured concerned depositors and creditors that Unitrust has sufficient
funds to pay all the claims.
Presiding
Judge Winlove Dumayas of the Regional Trial Court of Makati City, Branch 59
(Liquidation Court) earlier ordered the depositors and creditors of Unitrust to
attend the hearing set on September 10, 2013 at 8:30 a.m., at the Liquidation
Court “to agree to the proposed allocations of their interests in the
real properties as payment equivalent to 38% of their respective claims” and
“to execute their respective quitclaims and waivers once all their claims have
been fully-settled.” This is pursuant to the Omnibus Order dated August
5, 2013 issued by the Liquidation Court. The Order further directed PDIC to
submit before the Liquidation Court a list of all unfiled claims after the
45-day period counted from the date of publication of the notice as these
unfiled claims shall be written-off and shall be distributed to the
stockholders of the Unitrust.
The
PDIC urged Unitrust depositors and creditors to attend the September 10 hearing
set by the Liquidation Court to discuss the payment of the remaining balance of
their respective claims. The proposal of Unitrust stockholders is to pay the
remaining balance with real properties.
The
payment of the cash portion of the claims is without prejudice to the final
resolution of PDIC’s petition for certiorari (C-A-G.R. No. 128241) before the
Court of Appeals on the December 17, 2012 Order.
For
more information, depositors and creditors may visit the PDIC website at www.pdic.gov.ph or call Mr. Ronald C. Angeles at telephone no.
841-4780 and Mr. Marcelo Torres at telephone numbers 841-4784 and
841-4983.
Unitrust
was ordered closed by the Monetary Board on January 4, 2002, and is now under
the liquidation of the PDIC.
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