Castelo on Wednesday filed House Resolution 1293, which seeks to come out with a remedial legislation that could prevent the recurrence of the incident.
Filipino basketball fans had paid as much as P23,000 a ticket to see a basketball game between the national team players and the NBA stars. The cancelled game was supposed to be part of a series of exhibition games before Gilas flies to Spain to play in the FIBA World Cup.
Reports suggested that the PLDT Group of Companies, which sponsored the cancelled game, appeared to have been duped by a US-based event organizing group, which promised the conglomerate to bring in the NBA players.
Citing press reports, PLDT was informed by the other party to the agreement just hours before the event that the NBA players were barred from playing, citing the existing NBA players' memo which informed the player agents and the players themselves that the NBA does not allow unsanctioned exhibition games, Castelo said.
Castelo said Congress has to initiate an inquiry to prevent a repetition even as PLDT chairman Manny Pangilinan said "a refund scheme was being put in motion" because he did not want the public to feel shortchanged.
source: www.abs-cbnnews.com
