By YVONNE T. CHUA INVESTIGATORS of the Anti-Money Laundering Council recently concluded that bank accounts of Sen. Ramon Revilla Jr. and his family, as well as those of Janet Lim-Napoles and her pseudo-NGOs, were possibly involved in a scheme to launder the controversial “pork barrel” funds. The AMLC’s 64-page inquiry report containing the initial findings
By ELLEN T. TORDESILLAS WHILE everybody was trying to recover from the emotional performance of President Aquino in his 5th State-of-the-Nation address Monday night, pork barrel queen Janet Napoles was brought to Camp Bagong Diwa jail at the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology in Bicutan,Taguig. Reports said Napoles arrived at Bicutan from Fort Sto.
By ELLEN T. TORDESILLAS AMONG working journalists, we have a term “didal.” That is used when a PR (press relations officer) pockets the money intended for a reporter. So the PR’s principal- a government official, a businessman or anybody who is the subject of a news report – thinks that he has paid off
By ELLEN T. TORDESILLAS NOW that the Ombudsman has approved the resolution to file plunder charges against those involved in the malversation of the Priority Development Assistance Fund, it looks like Senators Juan Ponce-Enrile, Jinggoy Estrada and Bong Revilla would be observing their Holy Week in jail. It is reported that Revilla and his
By ELLEN TORDESILLAS ONE week after the 7.2 magnitude tremblor that shook Bohol, Cebu and other parts of Central Visayas, many are still unaccounted for. Heart rending is the report about the missing five children playing by the waterfall, which has also been obliterated by landslides that followed the quake. There may still
By ELLEN TORDESILLAS THE speech of Sen. Jinggoy Estrada may not be as explosive as expected but the public is benefitting from it because we are getting a bigger and more realistic picture of how rotten the system is, and how “tuwid na daan” is being drawn with crooked lines. Estrada is one
THE National Bureau of Investigation filed on Monday afternoon plunder and malversation of public funds charges against Senators Ramon “Bong” Revilla Jr., Jinggoy Estrada and Juan Ponce Enrile, and businesswoman Janet Lim-Napoles before the Office of the Ombudsman in connection with the misuse of the Priority Development Assistance Fund, more commonly known as “pork barrel.”
By DANA BATNAG IT WILL be a much-anticipated media event, but the filing of complaints against senators and congressmen allegedly involved in the pork barrel scam is unlikely to result in fireworks or other earthshaking political upheavals. That’s because filing a complaint with the Ombudsman is just the start of a long process—one that
THE Philippine National Police released Sunday morning photos of alleged bigtime “pork barrel” operator Janet Lim-Napoles in detention at Fort Sto. Domingo, Sta. Rosa, Laguna. The photos were taken by photographers of the PNP Public Information Office and Special Action Force. Napoles, who is charged with serious illegal detention of whistleblower Ben Hur Luy, surrendered
By ARTHA KIRA PAREDES THEY maneuvered their wheelchairs under the light morning rainshower, through wet roads leading to Luneta Park and the muddy grounds of the Quirino Grandstand. Those who use crutches trudged the same path.
