DM Wenceslao and Associates, through subsidiary Mandaue Land Consortium, asked the Court of Appeals to nullify a Pasig court decision ordering the implementation of a reclamation project in Mandaue City that was allegedly voided earlier by a government agency.
The Pasig court decision favored a consortium led by Harbour Centre, whose project was annulled by the Construction Industry Arbitration Commission since it was already granted more than a decade earlier to the Wenceslao group.
Wenceslao said in a statement it was not informed about the case, while the court was not told about the Wenceslao project although the city government, under a new mayor, was impleaded.
The Pasig court issued its decision in December 2020, but Wenceslao learned about it in November 2021.
The Mandaue City government, then under then Mayor Thadeo Ouano, awarded the project to Wenceslao in 2001 after a public bidding.