{"id":13783,"date":"2014-06-05T16:50:00","date_gmt":"2014-06-05T08:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=13783"},"modified":"2014-06-05T16:50:00","modified_gmt":"2014-06-05T08:50:00","slug":"ombudsman-no-immunity-for-napoles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/06\/05\/ombudsman-no-immunity-for-napoles\/","title":{"rendered":"Ombudsman: No immunity for Napoles"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_12692\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12692\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/1173676_663634760332782_2041355589_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12692\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/1173676_663634760332782_2041355589_n-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"Ombudsman Conchita Carpio-Morales in a senate hearing. \/ Photo from her Facebook Page\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/1173676_663634760332782_2041355589_n-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/1173676_663634760332782_2041355589_n.jpg 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12692\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ombudsman Conchita Carpio-Morales in a senate hearing. \/ Photo from her Facebook Page<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA &#8212; The Office of the Ombudsman denied the alleged pork barrel scam mastermind, Janet Lim-Napoles&#8217; application for immunity on grounds of her failure to meet the qualifications to become an immune witness.<\/p>\n<p>Ombudsman Conchita Carpio Morales said in a statement released on Thursday that Napoles &#8220;appears to be the most guilty of all respondents.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Napoles was earlier reported to have said that she is willing to return the kickbacks she earned in exchange for her immunity.<\/p>\n<p>President Benigno Aquino III, who seems to be not open to the idea of immunity, however said that the government will recover the funds whether she returns them or not.<\/p>\n<p>The immunity, was however granted to whistleblowers\u00a0<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Benhur Luy, Marina Sula, Merlina Su\u00f1as, Mary Arlene Baltazar and Simonette Briones.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>With reports from GMA News<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA &#8212; The Office of the Ombudsman denied the alleged pork barrel scam mastermind, Janet Lim-Napoles&#8217; application for immunity on &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":12692,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[2796,1555],"class_list":["post-13783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ph","tag-immunity","tag-napoles","mauthors-lei-fontamillas","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13783","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=13783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13783\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}