TIGER RESORT Leisure and Entertainment Inc. (TRLEI) on Wednesday asked a Parañaque judge to inhibit from the two estafa cases they filed against Japanese gambling mogul Kazuo Okada after a copy of unreleased court resolutions were posted on social media by Mr. Okada’s “close companion.”
According to TRLEI’s motion for inhibition submitted on May 22, “it is clear that copies of the supposed Resolution in the first and second estafa cases have been leaked to Respondent Kazuo Okada and/or his close companion, even before the Resolutions could be officially released,” despite being told “no Resolution disposing the captioned cases was available for release to, and/or authorized to be viewed by the parties.”
“TRLEI was very shocked and utterly disappointed to learn that as early as 18 May 2018, Friday, Chloe Kim had already posted, on her Facebook and Instagram accounts, a picture of the dispositive/signature portions of the Resolutions disposing the captioned cases and dismissing the first estafa case and second estafa case,” the petition read.
“As a result, there is real and unmistakable basis for Complainant TRLEI to believe that City Prosecutor Amerhassan C. Paudac is biased and partial in favor of Respondent Kazuo Okada,” thus supposedly justifying his inhibition from the cases.
The petition pointed out that Ms. Kim was a former food and beverage manager in TRLEI’s Okada Manila casino resort, where Mr. Okada was chief executive officer until he was removed in June 2017.
Mr. Okada was placed under a lookout bulletin issued by the Department of Justice (DoJ) on March 22 in connection with the estafa and perjury cases filed against him by TRLEI.
TRLEI alleges that Mr. Okada misappropriated up to $10 million when he was still working for the company. — Dane Angelo M. Enerio

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