The plunder cases against Janet Lim Napoles are airtight.
This is the statement of Presidential Legal Adviser Salvador Panelo upon learning that the businesswoman has been absolved by the Court of Appeals of serious illegal detention case.
Panelo is just shrugging off the ruling of the appellate court, saying, “we respect the decision.”
He adds, “it is the court that decides whether the cases presented will entitle the accused to acquittal or conviction.”
He, however, emphasizes that this development has no link to the plunder charges being faced by Napoles.
In 2013, Napoles was reported to have chanelled some P 10 billion in Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF) into ghost projects in over 10 years.
Panelo maintains, the evidence against Napoles in the plunder raps are “very strong.”
