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The Philippine Deposit Insurance Corp. (PDIC) has filed 24 new estafa cases against Orient Commercial Banking Corp. (Orient Bank) owner Jose C. Go and several other senior officers of the bank and its property affiliate - nearly two years after the bank has been ordered closed.
In a June 5 letter to the Department of Justice, PDIC chief legal counsel Pablo Y. Romero, Jr. said an examination of the closed commercial bank's records revealed management gave out "fictitious" loans to 24 individuals, amounting to P178.6 million.
"It appears, however, that the manager's checks issued from October 1996 to February 1997 to cover the proceeds of the alleged loans …