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Napoles’ daughter faces arrest order

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THE Court of Tax Appeals on Wednesday ordered the arrest of Jeane Catherine Napoles, daughter of businesswoman Janet Lim Napoles accused of masterminding the P10-billion Priority Development Assistance Fund scam.

Jeane Catherine is facing arrest for her failure to attend her arraignment on the P17.888 million tax evasion case.

Despite a P50,000 bail previously posted by the 23-year-old Jeane Catherine, Associate Justice Esperanza Victorino of the Third Division issued the arrest warrant to go after the younger Napoles.

The Department of Justice and Bureau of Internal Revenue filed two separate tax evasion charges against the accused with the first and third divisions.

The tax court granted the motion of the government prosecutors to consolidate the two cases into one suit.

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Jeane Catherine allegedly violated Section 255 of the National Internal Revenue Code or failure to file an income tax return, and Section 254 for tax evasion.

The government said Jeane Catherine was culpable of P17,461 million for a residential condominium in California, the United States for 2011, and P426,866.67 as co-owner of two Pangasinan farm lots for 2012, or a total of P17.888 million.

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