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Janet Lim-Napoles [nb 1] (born Janet Luy Lim; January 15, 1964) is a Filipina businesswoman who is believed to have masterminded the Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF) Scam. She was convicted of plunder for her involvement in the PDAF Scam and is facing charges for alleged involvement in the misuse of the Malampaya fund for disaster ...
The Priority Development Assistance Fund scam, also called the PDAF scam or the pork barrel scam, is a political scandal involving the alleged misuse by several members of the Congress of the Philippines of their Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF, popularly called "pork barrel"), a lump-sum discretionary fund granted to each member of Congress for spending on priority development ...
Janet Lim Napoles: N/A Independent: Businesswoman, dubbed by the media as the mastermind of the PDAF scam. Koko Pimentel: Senator: PDP–Laban: Panfilo Lacson [2] Rodolfo Plaza: House Representative: NPC: Inquirer [3] Panfilo Lacson [2] Matt Ranillo III: N/A N/A: Behur Luy, Ruby Tuason [5] [6] Former actor.
The United States’ Department of Justice announced yesterday that it has charged Janet Napoles with laundering as much as US$20 million (more than PHP1.59 billion) of the Philippines’ Priority ...
The so-called "Pork Barrel Scam" was first exposed in the Philippine Daily Inquirer on July 12, 2013, [12] with the six-part exposé of the Inquirer on the scam pointing to businesswoman Janet Lim-Napoles as the scam's mastermind after Benhur K. Luy, her second cousin and former personal assistant, was rescued by agents of the National Bureau of Investigation on March 22, 2013, four months ...
In 2014, Bagatsing was implicated in the pork barrel scam, facing accusations of receiving ₱600,000 in kickbacks linked to Janet Lim-Napoles, according to the ledger of whistleblower Benhur Luy. Graft complaints were filed against him and 9 others with the Office of the Ombudsman on August 7, 2015. [ 17 ]
Unfortunately, Jinggoy was also charged with plunder when the PDAF Scam involving Janet Lim-Napoles was exposed in 2013. [29] He was released in September 2017 after posting Php 1.33 million in bail. [30]
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