PEP spent more than two hours with the key people of Beverly Hills 6750, managing director Dr. Eduardo Santos (left), general manager Suzette Lopez (right), and Dr. Abe Marinduque (not in photo) to discuss the major issues of their clinic and the man who started it all.

courtesy of www.bh6750.com

PEP SPECIAL REPORT (Part I): Beverly Hills 6750 admits to problems, but says it’s not closing down

Jo-Ann Maglipon and Karen Pagsolingan

Tuesday, February 26, 2008
03:36 PM

Dr. Marinduque was equally aghast. He said he had had a successful medical practice in the U.S. for 22 years before he was invited to join Beverly Hills 6750. He added that he not only joined the latter's medical staff, he invested his lifetime's savings in the clinic. With the questions about the history of the clinic mounting, and the answers falling into place, he said they were all caught in a dilemma.

"We agonize," the mild-mannered doctor said. "Every day, we agonize if we're going to come out. And tell them...tell the clients. We even said, 'We owe our clients the truth.' And so finally, when we had our legal basis for all of these things, that's when we started coming out. And let me tell you, some of these people invested here, like me especially, invested their retirement in this company, so it was doubly emotional for me. You know that this happened, that I was misled by David."

DEVASTATING DISCOVERIES. Dr. Ed Santos and Dr. Abe Marinduque said that, following the PEP inquiry, they proceeded to seek help from trusted friends in the U.S. "to investigate for us."

According to Dr. Santos, last January 15 he sent an email to Beth Isidro, his "contact in the U.S." He read to us his email: "I need to know if BHSI still exists. If it does still exist, are they actually aware of our relationship? Or is it now a dissolved corporation? Since when?"

The full report on his queries, he continued, was completed on January 25.

An email that Dr. Santos says is the abbreviated report of their researcher noted:

(1) The "800 numbers set up under the business name BHSI" and the www.weknow.beauty.com, BHSI's website, are "not connected to any legal business entity."

(2) Inquiries with California State Chamber of Commerce and Beverly Hills Chamber of Commerce affirmed that BHSI is "not registered."

(3) Brea Chamber of Commerce, however, included BHSI in its listing. The company name was "Beverly Hills 6750," under the "Plastic Surgeon" category, with address at "405 South State College Blvd., Brea CA 92821," and phone number "714-671-0555." The said list also cited a "Tom Oseransky" as the contact person with email address toseransky@bhdocs.com.

But upon verifying the veracity of the business's contact details, it was discovered that a "Rica Donna Beauty Salon has been using the said address and phone number for the past three years or longer." The researcher of Beverly Hills 6750 surmised: "Tom Oseransky registered BHSI with Brea Chamber of Commerce using the beauty salon address and phone number.

(4) There was no license ever issued to BHSI or any business entity close to such name. To the Business Licensing Department, BHSI is non-existent or may be illegally operating without the required license."

(5) "The copy of the MOA [Memorandum of Agreement] received by PEP stated a different address for Oseransky [2236 S. Barrington Avenue, Los Angeles, California, USA, 90064, as stated in the Franchise Agreement mentioned by PEP in previous article].

Their U.S.-based researcher concluded: "BHSI does not exist as a legal business entity and probably never existed as such. We have been dreadfully misled by its alleged reputable, celebrated, and esteemed existence and operation in California, as well as the existence of a legit and valid affiliation with such a business entity. It is nothing more than a cheap 800 number and ambiguous website."

Dr. Santos noted that on February 1, or barely a week after they received the results of their own investigation, Beverly Hills 6750 filed its first estafa suit against David Bunevacz. That was also when, be repeated, "We felt ready to face the press."

BLAMING BUNEVACZ. Beverly Hills 6750 managing director Dr. Santos has placed the blame squarely on the company's former president, David Bunevacz.

"Obviously," he told PEP on February 8, "for us, there was a criminal mind behind it, so to speak. There was an obvious deception attempt because David had tried to work with the Beverly Hills Medical Group [a different local clinic, which also has "Beverly Hills" in its name]. That did not materialize. And when that did not happen, he flew to the States, supposedly to look for another partner. And when he had come back a week later, he said that he had found a partner [the Beverly Hills Surgical Institute]. And this was it."

In 2006 and 2007, David Bunevacz, a Filipino-Hungarian decathlete raised in California, and his wife Jessica Rodriguez, a former starlet and a talent manager, were the public face of Beverly Hills 6750. The public may even have believed that the couple "owned" the clinic.

In truth, Dr. Santos said, the clinic was owned by "10 investors." As Dr. Santos explained it: "That would be myself and, of course, the investors. Two sets of investors, one group is based here, primarily based here. [It's] a group of Filipino-Chinese businessmen. Another group represents some interests in the United States, including Dr. Abe, who at that time was in the United States."

Additional PEP research showed that some of these investors include Juanito Ho, Cedric Lee, Louie Kaw, Dominic Sytin, and Tyrone Ong.

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