{"id":31084,"date":"2022-06-23T06:20:13","date_gmt":"2022-06-23T09:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=31084"},"modified":"2026-04-23T07:30:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T10:30:11","slug":"former-construction-team-leader-sues-ipi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/former-construction-team-leader-sues-ipi","title":{"rendered":"Former construction team leader sues IPI"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Jess Aquiningoc resigned as IPI&#8217;s construction team leader earlier this month after claiming the company refused to pay part of his salary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Northern Mariana Islands.-\u00a0Jess Aquiningoc, the former head of Imperial Pacific International&#8217;s construction team, is suing the company for its failure to pay money owed. Aquiningoc <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/ipi-construction-team-leader-resigns-due-to-ongoing-payment-delays\" target=\"_blank\">resigned from IPI<\/a> almost a month ago over the non payment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hy says <strong>IPI owes him US$4,700 in paid time off<\/strong> that he accumulated over the past two years but that the company paid him only $2,500 before he resigned. He said he had to borrow money and go into debt with family and friends as a result. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/former-construction-team-leader-claims-ipi-still-owes-him-money\" target=\"_blank\">company had asked him not to speak<\/a>\u00a0to the media but that he had to do so to make visible the damage caused. IPI has faced complaints from many sides for non-payment of money owed, be it form workers and suppliers or the Commonwealth Casino Commission, which\u00a0has <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/andrew-yeom-files-a-fifth-complaint-against-ipi\" target=\"_blank\">filed five complaints<\/a>\u00a0against the operator and is seeking <strong>to revoke permanently revokeits exclusive casino licence<\/strong> over non-payment of its fees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Earlier this week, the&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/us-marshals-service-seizes-over-150k-from-ipi\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">US Marshals Service seized funds from IPI<\/a>&nbsp;in order to satisfy a court judgement in favour of Red Coral Corp. The company had sued the casino operator for<strong>&nbsp;failing to pay leases on a 20-unit apartment complex<\/strong>&nbsp;between January 2019 and August 2019.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jess Aquiningoc resigned as IPI&#8217;s construction team leader earlier this month after claiming the company refused to pay part of his salary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":19434,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"Imperial Pacific International (IPI) faces escalating financial and regulatory challenges, including a lawsuit from a former construction team leader for unpaid wages and ongoing complaints from the Commonwealth Casino Commission regarding unpaid fees. The US Marshals Service has seized IPI funds to satisfy a court judgment, further highlighting the operator's severe liquidity issues and potential loss of its exclusive casino license in the Northern Mariana Islands.","focusai_entities":"Jess Aquiningoc, Imperial Pacific International, IPI, Commonwealth Casino Commission, US Marshals Service, Red Coral Corp","focusai_location":"Northern Mariana Islands","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.95), regulator (0.98), compliance_legal (0.95), operator_casino (0.9), investor_analyst (0.97), supplier_vendor (0.9), journalist_researcher (0.92)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"IPI License Revocation Status?","query":"What is the current status of the Commonwealth Casino Commission's proceedings to permanently revoke Imperial Pacific International's exclusive casino license?"},{"label":"IPI Financial Solvency Impact?","query":"How will IPI's mounting financial liabilities and asset seizures impact its ability to maintain operational solvency and meet future obligations?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[16336,439],"tags":[24134,22674],"class_list":["post-31084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australasia-news","category-legal-news","tag-imperial-pacific-international","tag-ipi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/176"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31084"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31089,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31084\/revisions\/31089"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}