REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES

REGIONAL TRIAL COURT

NATIONAL CAPITAL REGION
SAN JUAN CITY, BRANCH 20

RUFUS ZAPANTA
Plaintiff,
- Versus -

Civil Case No. 3232101

For: Collection of Sum of
Money

IMELDA MATIAS
Defendant,
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JUDICIAL AFFIDAVIT OF
RUFUS ZAPANTA
I, Rufus Zapanta, 25 years of age, resident of Bryg. Batis, San Juan
City, an architect, working at Palafox Associates, San Juan City, state
under oath as follows:
This Judicial Affidavit is being offered to prove the following:
a. All the allegations in the complaint including all annexes
appended thereto and which are already marked as exhibits
in the case;
b. All other related matters, facts and circumstances relevant
and material to this case.
The person examining me is Atty Adah Gwynne P. Tobes with
address at Lawton Avenue, Taguig, Metro Manila. The examination is
being held at the same address. I am answering her questions fully
conscious that I do so under oath and may face criminal liability for
false testimony and perjury. The following are the questions
propounded by Atty Tobes and my respective answers numbered
consecutively:
1. Q: Do you swear to tell the truth and nothing but the truth?
A: Yes I do.
2. Q: Please state your name, age, and address.
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A: I am Rufus Zapanta, 25 years of age, residing at Bryg. Batis,

San Juan City.
3. Q: Are you the same Rufus Zapanta, the plaintiff in this case?
A: Yes maam.
4. Q: Do you know a certain Imelda Matias?
A: Yes maam.
5. Q: How did you come to know Ms. Matias?
A: I met him at the wedding of my sister Jacque Zapanta-Matias
and brother-in-law Jacob Matias. She asked me if I could loan
him P257,600.00 for starting up a small restaurant.
6. Q: Have you in fact loaned the P257,600.00 to Ms. Matias?
A: Yes maam, considering that she is a cousin of my brother-inlaw and my brother-in-law even vouched for her.
7. Q: When did you loaned Ms. Matias the money?
A: On February 20, 2011 maam.
8. Q: And when did it become due and demandable base on your
agreement?
A: On August 18, 2012.
9. Q: What is this document?
A: Its a check maam.
10.Q: Who issued this check?
A: Ms. Imelda Matias maam.
11. Q: When did Ms. Matias issued the check?
A: on August 18, 2012 maam.
12. Q: For what purpose did Ms. Matias issued the check?
A: As payment for his indebtedness to me, but it was
dishonored
twice.
13. Q: When and on what grounds was the check dishonored?
A: First on September 28, 2012 by reason of Drawn against
Insufficient Fund, and the second was on February 18, 2013
by reason of Closed Account.
14. Q: Did Ms. Matias paid you in any other manner aside from
issuance of a check?
A: Yes maam, she deposited P80,000.00 to my Metrobank
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account in San Juan City on September 14, 2015.

15. Q: Did Ms. Matias subsequently paid the remaining

P177,600.00?
A: No maam.
16. Q: I am presenting to you this document referred to as Annex
D.
Do you know about this document?
A: Yes maam, that is the demand letter I sent to Ms. Imelda
Matias for the remaining P177,600.00 on September 30, 2015.
17. Q: Have you demanded for the payment of the remaining
balance from Ms. Matias in any other manner?
A: Yes maam, I personally went to their house to ask for the
payment of P177,600.00, five days after I sent her my first
demand letter. I also sent her text messages asking her to pay
me.
18. Q: I am showing you another document herein referred to as
Annex E. Do you know about this document?
A. Yes maam, that is my final demand letter sent to Ms. Matias
on November 25, 2015.
19. Q: Was there any payment made after such demands?
A: No maam.
20. Q: Did Ms. Imelda Matias made any attempts to communicate
to
you regarding the said loan?
A: No maam.
Further Affiant Sayeth None.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto affixed my signature this
6th day of December, 2015, San Juan City.

Rufus Zapanta
Affiant

JURAT
SUBSCRIBED AND SWORN to before me, a notary public in and for
Rufus Zapanta, this 6th day of December, 2015, at Taguig, Metro
Manila, Philippines, affiant appearing before me with his CTC No.
839932 issued on January 5, 2015, at San Juan City, and TIN I.D.
No. 1331344 issued on August 15, 2010 at San Juan City, presenting
to me the above judicial affidavit, affiant identified through his officially
issued identity card bearing his photograph and signature and
Community Tax Certificate, and who signed said document in my
presence and sworn as to said document that he understood the
contents thereof and that the same was his free and voluntary act
and deed.

Jason Lance Palma

Notary Public
Doc. No. 54
Page No. 24
Book No. 5
Series of 2015

SWORN ATTESTATION
I hereby attests that, as counsel of the witness, I faithfully
recorded the questions I asked and the corresponding answers of the
witness; that I did not nor did any other person, present or assisting
coach the witness answers to the questions propounded; and I fully
understand that any false attestation shall subject me to disciplinary
action, including disbarment.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto affixed my signature
this 6 day of December, 2015 at San Juan City.
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Adah Gwynne P. Tobes

Counsel for the Plaintiff
Roll of Attorneys No. 60001
PTR No. 25-25-0-11, 04/23/2015
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IBP No. 920121, 4/25/2011