A developer, earlier called out by Malacañang for misrepresenting President Rodrigo Duterte’s message as a company endorsement, is facing a string of complaints and investigation by different government agencies over a project that sold cheap parcels of land along the shores of Laguna de Bay in Rizal province. The Laguna Lake Development Authority (LLDA) on Monday said it filed complaints of grave coercion and violations of Republic Act No. 4850 (the law that created the LLDA) against Torque Village Development Inc. (TVDI), a company based in Cainta, Rizal, which is behind the mixed-use development of 115 hectares of land in Taytay town, also in the same province. The government property in Sitio Tipayan, Barangay San Juan, falls within the 14,000-ha shoreland, whose sale is not only illegal but also at risk of liquefaction and flooding, according to the LLDA.

Cinco, M. (2020, August 11). Gov't runs after firm selling land along Laguna lake shores. Philippine Daily Inquirer, p. A5.