JANET Lim Napoles on Thursday said she is willing to take the witness stand on the graft cases she and Senator Jose “Jinggoy” Estrada are facing before the Sandiganbayan for involvement in the P10-billion pork barrel fund scam.
Napoles is on the list of the possible witnesses on her pre-trial brief submitted to the anti-graft court’s Fifth Division.
Two accused—Ronald John Lim, Napoles’ brother, and John Raymond de Asis—both at large, are also on the list of witnesses.
In the proposed facts for the stipulation of the case, Napoles told the court that she does not have any involvement with supposed fake non-government organizations used to divert Priority Development Assistance Fund.
On the documents, Napoles said she was not a payee of any check issued by the implementing agencies to the questioned foundations, and that she and De Asis never entered into any arrangement with Estrada or the implementing government agencies.
She maintained she is a private individual, and that she does not have participation to identify and select a partner NGO.
The camp of Napoles also listed at least more than 50 witnesses, officers and bank representatives, and government officials.
The pre-trial is set on March 14.
Napoles is facing several counts of plunder and graft cases before the Sandiganbayan as the mastermind of the pork barrel fund scam.
