Sources close to the information have informed us that 8-division world champion Manny Pacquiao was served with a lawsuit from his former accounting firm, VisionQwest Resources Group. “Manny was served personally,” one source commented, informing us that Pacquiao himself was delivered the paperwork yesterday during a break in his training as he continues to prepare for his November 12 showdown with Juan Manuel Marquez. Evidently, both Pacquiao and his promotional company, MP Promotions, are named in the lawsuit, which was filed with the Los Angeles Superior Court.
Back in August, Pacquiao terminated the services of VisionQwest Resources Group, the company he originally hired to review all of his business contracts dating back to 2005 to ensure that all of his accounting, both business and personal, were in order. It’s a move that Michael Lodge, President & CEO of VisionQwest Resource Group, said was made due to “interference from individuals” and he promised that “our firm will deal with this issue in a legal manner under the contract laws afforded us as a business on the issue of interference in ones business.”
According to a press release distributed last month, Lodge revealed, “The main reason why VQ was hired to look into the missing money was because Manny believed that his fight promoter was not paying him his fair share.” Evidently, up until VisionQwest was hired in 2010, Pacquiao’s taxes were handled by several different accountants who “simply plugged in numbers supplied by Michael Koncz into the taxation forms and filed them with the IRS”. As Pacquiao’s popularity, and more impotantly his income, continued to grow, a red flag was raised that prompted the IRS to audit his taxes for the years 2006 and 2007. At that point, Team Pacquiao reached out to VisionQwest to help resolve their tax issues, and the company quickly realized that Manny Paquiao had no true knowledge of his financial worth, missing a number of key documents, including “bout contracts, bank statements, bout proceed distributions, endorsement contracts, promoter contracts, co-promoter contracts, and property ownership records” to name a few.
