{"id":51025,"date":"2015-06-01T23:11:32","date_gmt":"2015-06-01T15:11:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=51025"},"modified":"2015-06-01T23:11:32","modified_gmt":"2015-06-01T15:11:32","slug":"doj-asks-for-more-time-to-decide-on-3rd-batch-of-complaints-on-pdaf-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/06\/01\/doj-asks-for-more-time-to-decide-on-3rd-batch-of-complaints-on-pdaf-scam\/","title":{"rendered":"DOJ asks for more time to decide on 3rd batch of complaints on PDAF scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_14617\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14617\" style=\"width: 566px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/department-of-justice-DOJ.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14617\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/department-of-justice-DOJ.jpg\" alt=\"Department of Justice. Photo courtesy of doj.gov.ph\" width=\"566\" height=\"386\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/department-of-justice-DOJ.jpg 566w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/department-of-justice-DOJ-300x204.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 566px) 100vw, 566px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14617\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Department of Justice. Photo courtesy of doj.gov.ph<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA &#8212; The Department of Justice (DOJ) asked for more time on Monday to decide on the third batch of complaints involving the misuse of the Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF).<\/p>\n<p>The DOJ was expected to have decided on the third batch of PDAF scam cases last week.<\/p>\n<p>However, Justice Secretary Leila M. De Lima said on Monday that she is still waiting for more documents.<\/p>\n<p>De Lima also said that she will again meet on Wednesday with Justice Undersecretary Jose Justiniano, the one helping in the investigation of the PDAF scam.<\/p>\n<p>She added that she is expecting the documents she is requesting will also be submitted on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, De Lima could not yet say whether the DOJ-National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) is ready to file the cases before the Office of the Ombudsman because there are still many things that are being done.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the former lawmakers allegedly included in the third batch of PDAF cases claimed that their respective signatures were forged, hence, they should not be included in the complaint.<\/p>\n<p>The DOJ-NBI is currently studying whether the said defense of the former lawmakers is sufficient basis in order to exclude them from the third batch of complaints.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA &#8212; The Department of Justice (DOJ) asked for more time on Monday to decide on the third batch of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":14617,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95,483],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ph","category-politics","mauthors-philippines-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51025","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=51025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51025\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}