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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 ...
List of linked individuals to the PDAF scam; Accused Political Position Party Claimed by Other remarks Florencio Abad: Secretary of Budget and Management: Liberal: Daily Tribune [1] Panfilo Lacson [2] Former congressman. Daily Tribune claims according to its sources that it was Abad that taught Janet Napoles on how to operate the PDAF scam ...
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 ...
Mendoza also secured before the Supreme Court a bail grant for plunder defendant former senator Juan Ponce Enrile who was implicated in the multi-billion-peso pork barrel scam of Janet Lim-Napoles. [14] In the anti-graft court Sandiganbayan, Mendoza got Senator Bong Revilla acquitted of plunder who was implicated in the same pork barrel scam. [15]
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Janet Lim-Napoles and six others were indicted in 2018 for their involvement in the Fertilizer Fund scam. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] The group was indicted for graft and malversation of public funds over PHP5 million worth of projects, including the anomalous purchase of fertilizers in 2004 in Surigao del Norte . [ 11 ]
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