{"id":12460,"date":"2014-05-29T01:23:42","date_gmt":"2014-05-28T17:23:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=12460"},"modified":"2014-05-29T02:15:04","modified_gmt":"2014-05-28T18:15:04","slug":"pimentel-to-file-perjury-libel-charges-against-napoles-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/05\/29\/pimentel-to-file-perjury-libel-charges-against-napoles-others\/","title":{"rendered":"Pimentel to file perjury, libel charges against Napoles, others"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_11082\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11082\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Koko-Pimentel.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11082 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Koko-Pimentel-e1401297804162.jpg\" alt=\"Sen. Koko Pimentel. Photo courtesy of Pimentel's Facebook page.\" width=\"960\" height=\"624\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Koko-Pimentel-e1401297804162.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Koko-Pimentel-e1401297804162-300x195.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11082\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Koko Pimentel. Photo courtesy of Pimentel&#8217;s Facebook page.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA -\u2013 Senator Aquilino Pimentel III is bent on filing perjury and libel charges against controversial Janet Lim Napoles and other individuals who linked him in the alleged P10-billion priority development assistance fund (PDAF) scam.<\/p>\n<p>\u201dI\u2019m meeting with my lawyer this afternoon. We will file perjury as well as libel cases against Napoles and other people who deemed responsible for the damage to my reputation,\u201d Pimentel said in Senate media interview on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Aside from Napoles, Pimentel said a libel case might be filed against some media entities.<\/p>\n<p>Last Monday, Senate blue ribbon committee chairman Teofisto Guingona III released to the media Napoles\u2019 sworn affidavits where she named 20 former and current senators, including Pimentel and his father, former senator Aquilino \u2018Nene\u2019 Pimentel Jr.<\/p>\n<p>Pimentel admitted he met with Napoles in a restaurant in the Makati Shangri-La Hotel where Napoles asked for \u2018projects\u2019 but \u201cI refused her request outright.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201dAnd an examination of my identified PDAF projects would show that not a single centavo has been given to a project which is for implementation by any NGO, whether Napoles-controlled or not,\u201d Pimentel said<\/p>\n<p>Pimentel also said his estranged wife Jewel has denied receiving money from Louie Cruz in exchange for PDAF projects.<\/p>\n<p>Pimentel believes that somebody advised and helped Napoles in issuing her affidavit which he said was part of \u201cgrand deception.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201dThis disqualifies her (Napoles) as state witness specially her allegations cannot be corroborated by evidence,\u201d Pimentel, a lawyer, said.<\/p>\n<p>Pimentel said Napoles is not qualified to be a state witness because \u201cone of the requirements of being a state witness is, thou shall not lie.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201dHer application for state witness should be denied. Her special detention should be removed. She has to pay the price (for lying),\u201d Pimentel said.<\/p>\n<p>He believed the inclusion of his and his father\u2019s name in the affidavit was part of strategy by Napoles\u2019 lawyers to muddle and delay the investigation.<\/p>\n<p>In defense of his father, Pimentel said the former senator \u201cnever authorized anybody to deal with PDAF.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201dNo PDAF was released to my father. That\u2019s in 2003 because he was in the opposition,\u201d the young Pimentel said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA -\u2013 Senator Aquilino Pimentel III is bent on filing perjury and libel charges against controversial Janet Lim Napoles and &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":11082,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,95],"tags":[1494,3447,392,4223,1579],"class_list":["post-12460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news-ph","tag-janet-lim-napoles","tag-koko-pimentel","tag-pdaf-scam","tag-perjury","tag-pork-barrel-scam","mauthors-jelly-f-musico","mauthors-philippines-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12460","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=12460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12460\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}