{"id":15845,"date":"2014-06-18T15:58:57","date_gmt":"2014-06-18T07:58:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=15845"},"modified":"2014-06-18T23:24:10","modified_gmt":"2014-06-18T15:24:10","slug":"napoles-hidden-wealth-difficult-but-not-impossible-to-recover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/06\/18\/napoles-hidden-wealth-difficult-but-not-impossible-to-recover\/","title":{"rendered":"Napoles&#8217; &#8216;hidden&#8217; wealth difficult, but not impossible to recover"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_9870\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9870\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/451px-Janet_Lim-Napoles_mugshot.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9870\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/451px-Janet_Lim-Napoles_mugshot-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Alleged pork barrel scam mastermind: businesswoman Janet Lim Napoles. PNP Photo\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9870\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alleged pork barrel scam mastermind: businesswoman Janet Lim Napoles. PNP Photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA &#8212; A long and rough\u00a0road\u00a0awaits officials who would dare to\u00a0recover\u00a0the supposed hidden wealth of alleged pork barrel scam mastermind, Janet Lim Napoles.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Presidential Commission on Good Government (PCGG) chairman Andres Bautista said, in an interview with ABS-CBN on Tuesday night, that reclaiming the stolen money of\u00a0a private individual is extra challenging than that of a government official.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>PCGG was earlier tasked to recover President Ferdinand Marcos&#8217; ill-gotten wealth.<\/p>\n<p>But in the past decades of battling with the snail-paced process of recovery, only a few significant strides were made.<\/p>\n<p>Citing this, Bautista said running after Napoles&#8217; wealth would mean more challenge as it would \u00a0take years-long legal battle.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;Kakasuhan yan iko-korte ang daming mga appeal maraming mga petitions for certiorari on every interlocutary order that will be issued by the courts,&#8221; Bautista said. &#8220;Talagang matatagalan.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>(Cases will be filed; more appeals and\u00a0<span style=\"color: #000000;\">etitions for certiorari on every interlocutary order that will be issued by the courts. It would really take a long time.)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>He also added that the process will even be made longer as it could further be delayed by pleas and appeals from Napoles&#8217; lawyers.<\/p>\n<p>Bautista said that over 200 Marcos&#8217; wealth cases are still held up in court which may mean that state prosecutors may not be able to focus solely on Napoles&#8217; case.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the arduous legal battle in the recovery of Napoles&#8217; wealth, Bautista believes that it is not impossible to recover the supposed wealth of the alleged pork barrel queen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA &#8212; A long and rough\u00a0road\u00a0awaits officials who would dare to\u00a0recover\u00a0the supposed hidden wealth of alleged pork barrel scam mastermind, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":9870,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,1145],"tags":[1555,5594],"class_list":["post-15845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-headline","tag-napoles","tag-recovery-of-wealth","mauthors-lei-fontamillas","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15845","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=15845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15845\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}