{"id":10853,"date":"2014-05-18T00:29:02","date_gmt":"2014-05-17T16:29:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=10853"},"modified":"2014-05-18T00:29:02","modified_gmt":"2014-05-17T16:29:02","slug":"former-senate-president-warns-public-against-believing-reports-on-napoles-list-unless-supported-by-strong-evidences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/05\/18\/former-senate-president-warns-public-against-believing-reports-on-napoles-list-unless-supported-by-strong-evidences\/","title":{"rendered":"Former senate president warns public against believing reports on Napoles list unless supported by strong evidences"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_10854\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10854\" style=\"width: 504px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/aquilino-nene-pimentel.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10854\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/aquilino-nene-pimentel.jpg\" alt=\"Former Senate President Aquilino 'Nene' Pimentel. Keith Kristoffer Bacongco \/ Wikipedia photo\" width=\"504\" height=\"355\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/aquilino-nene-pimentel.jpg 504w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/aquilino-nene-pimentel-300x211.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 504px) 100vw, 504px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10854\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former Senate President Aquilino &#8216;Nene&#8217; Pimentel. <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Nene_Pimentel.jpg\">Keith Kristoffer Bacongco \/ Wikipedia photo<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA &#8212; Former Senate President Aquilino \u201cNene\u201d Pimentel Jr., on Saturday warned the public against immediately believing any report that a politician is corrupt unless supported by strong evidence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is easy to make a list but proving a person included in the list is one of the beneficiaries is another thing,\u201d Pimentel told reporters at the weekly forum, Kapihan sa Annabel\u2019s in Quezon City.<\/p>\n<p>He said the three list which came from different persons might be another squid tactics to muddle the issue and make it complicated to anyone which is real ad not.<\/p>\n<p>Justice Secretary Leila de Lima on Thursday had submitted to the Senate Blue Ribbon committee the signed list of lawmakers alleged pork barrel scam mastermind Janet Lim Napoles implicated in the Philippines&#8217; biggest corruption scandal in recent history.<\/p>\n<p>De Lima told committee chairman Sen. TG Guingona that she will submit the accompanying affidavit of Napoles and asked for a one-week extension or until May 22.<\/p>\n<p>Pimentel said the public should not be carried by reports that have no basis at all or supporting documents to prove the allegations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKawawa naman ang mga nasa listahan na hindi naman nailalabas ang mga supporting documents na talagang nagpapatunay na sila ay nagkasala,\u201d Pimentel explained.<\/p>\n<p>The veteran lawmaker clarified that he is not protecting any person including his son, Sen. Koko Pimentel but just warning the public not to believe if there are no supporting documents.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat I am trying to drive at is prosecute and jail those who have violated the law whoever they are but spare those innocent,\u201d Pimentel pointed out saying that submit all evidences if there is any to the Office of the Ombudsman and let them analyze if there is a prima facie evidence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA &#8212; Former Senate President Aquilino \u201cNene\u201d Pimentel Jr., on Saturday warned the public against immediately believing any report that &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":10854,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,95],"tags":[3580,392,1579],"class_list":["post-10853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news-ph","tag-aquilino-nene-pimentel","tag-pdaf-scam","tag-pork-barrel-scam","mauthors-sammy-f-martin","mauthors-philippines-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10853\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}