MANILA: Malacañang yesterday said that it is ready to assign more security men to Ombudsman Conchita Carpio-Morales, who revealed that she had received a death threat apparently related to a government probe on the pork barrel scam that she is leading.
Deputy Presidential spokesperson Abigail Valte said that just like what the ombudsman did, the government is willing to extend their hand in augmenting her security since she is requesting for it.
Morales revealed that her office received an anonymous call at around 1pm Friday.
“I wasn’t around, I was at the ADB. Someone wanted to scare me, going slow on this. It was a phone call,” she said.
Morales was at the Asian Development Bank forum on public governance when the call was received by her office.
“I’m not scared. Maybe they’re scared,” she said.
Morales lead the eight-member Interagency Anti-Graft Coordinating Council that had been tasked to investigate the multi-billion pork barrel fund scam involving several lawmakers and businesswoman Janet Lim Napoles.
The investigation would be based on the special report of the Commission on Audit (COA) on the Priority Development Assistance Fund allocated to lawmakers from 2007 to 2009.
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