{"id":11548,"date":"2014-05-22T16:03:51","date_gmt":"2014-05-22T08:03:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=11548"},"modified":"2014-05-22T16:03:51","modified_gmt":"2014-05-22T08:03:51","slug":"palace-denies-involvement-on-release-of-napoles-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/05\/22\/palace-denies-involvement-on-release-of-napoles-list\/","title":{"rendered":"Palace denies involvement on release of Napoles list"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Presidential Spokesperson Edwin Lacierda. Screenshot from May 14 press briefing<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

MANILA — Despite allegations of creating cover-up to protect its allies, Malacanang firmly denies any involvement behind the\u00a0alleged disclosure of various Napoles lists.<\/p>\n

\u201cIs it something that is logical for someone to say that we are the perpetrators of the release of the list where we\u00a0placed in that particular list the names of those who are in the Cabinet? That seems to be an illogical statement. It\u00a0doesn\u2019t make sense,\u201d Presidential Spokesman Edwin Lacierda said in a Palace press briefing.<\/p>\n

United Nationalist Alliance (UNA) secretary general Toby Tiangco has earlier accused the administration of confusing\u00a0the public and protecting its allies by releasing several versions of the Napoles list.<\/p>\n

This according to Tiangco is quite similar to the \u201cHello Garci\u201d cover-up in 2005 created by the administration to create\u00a0nuisance to the public.<\/p>\n

Lacierda however, dismissed the allegations made by Tiangco as something that \u201cdo not make sense\u201d since he\u00a0explained that some administration allies were also included in the lists of politicians created by Janet Lim Napoles.<\/p>\n

\u2018Allies\u2019 still trustworthy\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

While several members of the administration were implicated in the list including Budget Secretary Florencio Abad,<\/p>\n

Agriculture Secretary Proceso Alcala and Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) chief Joel\u00a0Villanueva, the President still maintained his trust saying they are all innocent until proven guilty.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd again, we are looking at this based on the instruction given by the President on: \u2018Let\u2019s look for the evidence, and\u00a0where the evidence leads, that\u2019s where we\u2019re going,\u2019\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Lacierda also maintained the president\u2019s order to wait for the verification of the list by the Department of Justice\u00a0adding that the justice department, though has received the initial affidavit of Napoles, is still waiting for the \u201cextended\u00a0affidavit\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe DOJ is still not in the possession of that extended affidavit. We\u2019re only going to evaluate to whatever signed and\u00a0sworn affidavit that Ms. Napoles submits to the DOJ. That\u2019s the only thing that we\u2019re going to consider,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

With Reports from Genalyn Kabiling<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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