More than P200 million were transferred from the bank accounts of two non-government organizations (NGOs) to the bank accounts of “pork barrel” scam brains Janet Lim Napoles from 2009 to 2011.
This was revealed by an investigator of the Anti-Money Laundering Council (AMLC) at the resumption of the bail hearing of detained Senator Jinggoy Estrada yesterday before the Fifth Division of the Sandiganbayan.
The AMLC investigator, lawyer Orlando Negradas Jr., told the court that from 2009 to 2011 a total of P143,223,000 were transferred to the bank accounts of Napoles, mostly under the JLN Corporation, from the Metrobank accounts of Social Development Program for Farmers Foundation, Inc. (SDPFFI) and the Masaganang Ani Para Sa Magsasaka Foundation, Inc. (MAMFI).
Negradas previously identified the SDPFFI and MAMFI as Napoles-controlled NGOs used to divert the Priority Development Assistance Funds (PDAF) of Estrada.
In the re-direct examination conducted by Prosecutor Lalaine Benetiz yesterday, Negradas said that the SDPFFI made transfers from its Metrobank Magdalena branch a total of P123,970,000 from 2009 to 2011.
MANILA BULLETIN
