{"id":174791,"date":"2018-08-03T02:43:56","date_gmt":"2018-08-03T06:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=174791"},"modified":"2018-08-03T02:46:46","modified_gmt":"2018-08-03T06:46:46","slug":"indictment-napoles-us-bolsters-govt-case-palace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/08\/03\/indictment-napoles-us-bolsters-govt-case-palace\/","title":{"rendered":"Indictment of Napoles in US bolsters gov\u2019t case: Palace"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_102056\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-102056\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/janet-napoles-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-102056\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/janet-napoles-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"410\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/janet-napoles-1.jpg 600w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/janet-napoles-1-300x205.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-102056\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Napoles and her family members allegedly conspired to illegally transmit Philippine government funds worth USD20 million to the US to buy real estate assets and luxury vehicles. (File photo: PNA )<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA &#8212; Malaca\u00f1ang on Thursday said the indictment of Janet Lim-Napoles before the United States Department of Justice has strengthened the government\u2019s case against the alleged pork barrel scam mastermind.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe view the United States federal grand jury indictment against Mrs. Janet Lim-Napoles as a positive development, as it bolsters the government\u2019s case against her before the Sanddiganbayan,\u201d Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Last Wednesday, Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra confirmed that the US Department of Justice has charged Napoles and her five family members &#8212; children Jo Christine, James Christopher and Jeane; and her brother Reynald Lim and his wife Ana &#8212; with money laundering and conspiracy.<\/p>\n<p>Napoles and her family members allegedly conspired to illegally transmit Philippine government funds worth USD20 million to the US to buy real estate assets and luxury vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe charge of money laundering against Mrs. Napoles and her co-defendants shows that there is reason to believe that they attempted to retain the ill-gotten gains from the Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF) scam,\u201d Roque said.<\/p>\n<p>Roque believed that with the continuous coordination with US authorities, the funds that Napoles and her co-defendants stashed will soon be returned for the benefit of Filipinos.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs more of Mrs. Napoles\u2019 schemes come to light, it becomes imperative to charge all those who illegal profited from her transactions, regardless of their position or political affiliation,\u201d Roque said.<\/p>\n<p>Napoles, currently detained at the Camp Bagong Diwa in Taguig City, previously asked the Supreme Court to stop her indictment in the PDAF cases but her petitions had been dismissed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA &#8212; Malaca\u00f1ang on Thursday said the indictment of Janet Lim-Napoles before the United States Department of Justice has strengthened &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":102056,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-174791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-jelly-musico","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174791","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174791\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}