THE Supreme Court has again affirmed the indictment of detained businesswoman Janet Lim-Napoles, in connection with the anomaly involving billions of pesos in pork barrel funds of lawmakers.
In a resolution, the SC dismissed the petition of the jailed businesswoman seeking to stop her indictment on three counts of graft and malversation before the Sandiganbayan.
The SC instead sustained the resolutions of the Sandiganbayan’s Seventh Division in February and June last year finding probable cause in these additional cases filed by the Office of the Ombudsman against her.
This particular case involves the non-government organizations Masaganang Ani Para sa Magsasaka Foundation Inc. of Napoles, which allegedly benefitted from the pork barrel of former Oriental Mindoro First District Rep. Rodolfo Valencia.
From 2008 to 2009, Valencia funded three projects worth P6.5 million but allegedly turned out to have been non-existent.
The SC has earlier upheld the indictment of Napoles in the other plunder and graft cases against her before the other divisions of the Sandiganbayan.
While standing trial for the Priority Development Assistance Fund scam, Napoles is currently jailed at the Correctional Institute for Women after being convicted for the serious illegal detention of her former assistant and pork barrel scam star witness Benhur Luy.