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MANILA: Senate Majority Leader Alan Peter Cayetano said yesterday that probing deeper into the P900m Malampaya fund scam may reveal businesswoman Janet Lim-Napoles’ influence in government.
The senator believes that the P10bn pork barrel fund scam may just be a “tip of the iceberg” and the Malampaya fund scam may lead the Senate to the “complete picture of [Napoles’] operations in other government funds.”
Cayetano, meanwhile, reiterated his call to President Benigno Aquino III to pluck out from the government the personalities who have been tagged in the scams.
He said Manuel Jarmin, the acting director of the Livestock Development Council of the Department of Agriculture, was mentioned by pork scam whistle-blower Benhur Luy. Luy had testified that he and Napoles were introduced to former National Agribusiness Corporation (NABCOR) president Allan Javellana by Jarmin, who is listed as a nominee of an admitted Napoles partylist group, Smile, in 2007.
Jarmin is also an incorporator of Jimmy’s Bar and Grill and Reserval 08, both corporations of Napoles’s husband, Jimmy.
Cayetano has filed Resolution No 271, asking the Senate Blue Ribbon committee to also look into the Malampaya funds scam.
The funds scam involves P900m in government funds that were allocated to aid farmers affected by typhoons Ondoy and Pepeng in 2009. The funds, however, went into pockets of unscrupulous government officials and private individuals.
The PHilippine star
