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Story 1: AGENCIES CONFIRM TRANSFER OF PDAF TO FAKE NGOs
The Senate Blue Ribbon Committee continues to investigate the pork barrel scam, a system of kickbacks for lawmakers and public officials.
Subsidiary agencies of the Agriculture Department are in the hot seat, revealing some of the scam’s complex layers.
Ayee Macaraig reports.
The pork barrel scam unravels. This time, subsidiary agencies of the Agriculture Department come under fire.
Former heads of the National Agribusiness Corporation or NABCOR and ZNAC Rubber Estate Corporation or ZREC face the Senate Thursday, admitting their agencies transferred lawmakers’ development funds to fake NGOs linked to Janet Napoles.
Former NABCOR and ZREC officials confirm what the Commission on Audit told the Senate a week ago.
RHODORA MENDOZA, FORMER NABCOR VP FOR FINANCE: I am very sure of the 3 senators: Revilla, Estrada and Enrile.
SALVADOR SALACUP, FORMER ZREC HEAD: Cong Valdez, Cong Velarde, Sen Estrada, Enrile, Revilla coursed PDAF through ZREC.
The lawmakers are not the only ones in a bind.
Former NABCOR president Alan Javellana and former ZREC head Salvador Salacup say they approved the NGOs based on mere documents and did not check their offices or the actual project implementation.
Senators say this violates the procurement law and COA circulars.
FRANCIS ESCUDERO, PHILIPPINE SENATOR: Based on endorsement, hook line and sinker, pasok na, go na yun? No performance bond, no other requirements as long as endorsed by legislator?
JAVELLANA: Yes.
Javellana also admits he met Napoles twice in her office building, thinking she was a prospective NABCOR investor.
He also met her cousin now principal witness Benhur Luy but can’t remember the names of the legislators whose endorsement letters Luy carried.
TEOFISTO GUINGONA III, CHAIRMAN, BLUE RIBBON COMMITTEE: Yung mga detalye parang kape, walang pinakain sa iyo, naalala niyo. Pero ang lawmakers di mo maalala. Selective memory ata iyan. Sino ang
The Senate Blue Ribbon Committee continues to investigate the pork barrel scam, a system of kickbacks for lawmakers and public officials.
Subsidiary agencies of the Agriculture Department are in the hot seat, revealing some of the scam’s complex layers.
Ayee Macaraig reports.
The pork barrel scam unravels. This time, subsidiary agencies of the Agriculture Department come under fire.
Former heads of the National Agribusiness Corporation or NABCOR and ZNAC Rubber Estate Corporation or ZREC face the Senate Thursday, admitting their agencies transferred lawmakers’ development funds to fake NGOs linked to Janet Napoles.
Former NABCOR and ZREC officials confirm what the Commission on Audit told the Senate a week ago.
RHODORA MENDOZA, FORMER NABCOR VP FOR FINANCE: I am very sure of the 3 senators: Revilla, Estrada and Enrile.
SALVADOR SALACUP, FORMER ZREC HEAD: Cong Valdez, Cong Velarde, Sen Estrada, Enrile, Revilla coursed PDAF through ZREC.
The lawmakers are not the only ones in a bind.
Former NABCOR president Alan Javellana and former ZREC head Salvador Salacup say they approved the NGOs based on mere documents and did not check their offices or the actual project implementation.
Senators say this violates the procurement law and COA circulars.
FRANCIS ESCUDERO, PHILIPPINE SENATOR: Based on endorsement, hook line and sinker, pasok na, go na yun? No performance bond, no other requirements as long as endorsed by legislator?
JAVELLANA: Yes.
Javellana also admits he met Napoles twice in her office building, thinking she was a prospective NABCOR investor.
He also met her cousin now principal witness Benhur Luy but can’t remember the names of the legislators whose endorsement letters Luy carried.
TEOFISTO GUINGONA III, CHAIRMAN, BLUE RIBBON COMMITTEE: Yung mga detalye parang kape, walang pinakain sa iyo, naalala niyo. Pero ang lawmakers di mo maalala. Selective memory ata iyan. Sino ang