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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 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]
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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Janet Lim-Napoles, Senators Juan Ponce Enrile, Jinggoy Estrada, Ramon Revilla Jr., and Lower House representatives Priority Development Assistance Fund scam – involving businesswoman Janet Lim-Napoles and other politicians. [7] 2014 Executive. Legislature: Office of the President, Senate, House Representatives: Liberal