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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 ...
In 2013, Arroyo and Janet Lim Napoles were charged with plunder over the Malampaya fund scam. [14] In 2014, incumbent senators Bong Revilla, Jinggoy Estrada, and Juan Ponce Enrile along with Janet Lim Napoles were charged with plunder before the Sandiganbayan for allegedly pocketing kickbacks in the pork barrel scam. [15]
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"Philippines to investigate P10-billion 'pork barrel' scam". Mindanao Examiner. July 22, 2013. "Pork-barrel scam: a billion per year for ten years". Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility. July 26, 2013. "Businesswoman at the center of pork barrel scam urged DOJ and NBI to file appropriate charges against her". U.S. News Las Vegas. U.S ...
Gregory Santos Ong (born May 25, 1953) is a Filipino jurist and a former Justice of the Sandiganbayan.He was initially appointed as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines by President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo on May 16, 2007, but his appointment was subsequently withdrawn after questions arose whether he met the constitutional requirement of natural-born citizenship.