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2008-07-14 |
PER CURIAM |
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| The Court notes that this is not the first time that respondent is facing an administrative case, for he had been previously suspended from the practice of law in Samala v. Palaña[23] and Sps. Amador and Rosita Tejada v. Palaña.[24] In Samala, respondent also played an important role in a corporation known as First Imperial Resources Incorporated (FIRI), being its legal officer. As in this case, respondent committed the same offense by making himself part of the money trading business when, in fact, said business was not among the purposes for which FIRI was created. Respondent was thus meted the penalty of suspension for three (3) years with a warning that a repetition of the same or similar acts would be dealt with more severely.[25] Likewise, in Tejada, he was suspended for six (6) months for his continued refusal to settle his loan obligations.[26] | |||||