BY PRINCE GOLEZ
Manila Reporter
MANILA – Businesswoman Janet Lim Napoles’ children should not be spared from the government’s investigation on the P10-billion Priority Development Assistance Fund scam, said neophyte senator Bam Aquino.
“How can her children be spared from this investigation when whistleblowers revealed that they were the ones forging the signatures of Malampaya Fund ghost beneficiaries,” Aquino said.
Secretary of Justice Leila de Lima said she had been requested by Napoles to not “touch” her children Jo Christine, James Christopher and Jeane.
Whistleblowers claimed that Jo Christine and James received, for their mother, public funds allocated to their fake non-governmental organizations.
Aquino said sparing the Napoles children from the investigation will “send a wrong signal to the public that anyone can pocket billions and get away with it easily.”
Napoles’ children participated in the pork scheme and should see prosecution as well, he stressed.
The senator, meanwhile, is urging the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee to invite Napoles to its inquiry after she recovers from vaginal bleeding to “divulge the truth.”
“This way, we will let the truth prevail and punish those involved in the scam,” Aquino said./PN
