{"id":88463,"date":"2011-11-05T02:53:38","date_gmt":"2011-11-04T18:53:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsinfo.inquirer.net\/?p=88463"},"modified":"2011-11-06T03:04:53","modified_gmt":"2011-11-05T19:04:53","slug":"lpgma-party-list-rep-arnel-ty-8-others-face-cartel-raps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsinfo.inquirer.net\/88463\/lpgma-party-list-rep-arnel-ty-8-others-face-cartel-raps","title":{"rendered":"LPGMA party-list Rep. Arnel Ty, 8 others face cartel raps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Justice on Friday recommended the filing of charges against LPGMA party-list Rep. Arnel Ty and eight others for allegedly forcing LPG dealers to rollback prices of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) in violation of free trade laws.<\/p>\n<p>The 10-page resolution penned by prosecutor Cesar Angelo Chavez III and approved by Prosecutor-General Claro Arellano, found \u201cprobable cause\u201d to cite the lawmaker and his associates for using \u201cprice signalling\u201d to dictate LPG prices on their competitors, a violation of of anticartel provisions of the Downstream Oil Industry Deregulation Act.<\/p>\n<p>Aside from Ty, others ordered charged were Danilo Chua, Alison Sy, Rene Rosell, Ronnie Sevillana, Mar Dave Tang, Virginia Cid, Bonifacio Eleria and Antonio del Rosario\u2014all stockholders, directors and officers of LPG-selling or distributing firms and members of the LPG Marketers Association that Ty represents in Congress.<\/p>\n<p>The complainant, Federation of Philippine Industries chair Jesus Arranza, said the LPGMA unduly forced nonmembers to roll back prices of their LPG tanks whenever Ty made an announcement through the media that there would be a rollback.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement made by Ty, according to the complaint, resulted in \u201ccombination and\/or concerted action\u201d tantamount to \u201ccartelization\u201d as defined by Section 11 (a) of Republic Act 8479 and to \u201cmonopolies and combinations in restraint of trade\u201d as defined by Article 186 of the Revised Penal Code.<\/p>\n<p>The resolution noted that other members of the LPGMA did not object and apparently unanimously consented to the rollback declarations made by Ty. \u201cIn competition law, this is part of a strategy that includes a practice known as \u2018price signalling,\u2019\u201d the resolution added.<\/p>\n<p>The resolution said this was effectively \u201ca restraint on trade and free competition\u201d which the law seeks to avert.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Justice on Friday recommended the filing of charges against LPGMA party-list Rep. 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