After surgery, Vhong Navarro executes sworn testimony in hospital

Actor-TV host Vhong Navarro executed his sworn testimony in his hospital bed on Tuesday afternoon, his eyes a black mask of bruises and his nose heavily bandaged after the five-hour reconstructive surgery he underwent the night before.

With the help of his lawyer Atty. Alma Mallonga, Navarro signed the six-page document that allowed Mallonga to file on his behalf criminal charges against the group of student-model Deniece Cornejo, businessman Cedric Lee, and other men in connection with an incident at Cornejo’s condominium unit on January 22.

Mallonga proceeded to the NBI later in the afternoon and filed charges of serious physical injuries, illegal detention, grave threats, unlawful arrest, grave coercion, and blackmail against the group.

On Monday, Mallonga considered the filing of an all-encompassing and non-bailable serious illegal detention case against Cornejo’s group.

Navarro has alleged that the group ganged up on him when he visited Cornejo and that they mauled, tortured, and videotaped him naked, then blackmailed him into paying them P1 million.

Cornejo has claimed that Navarro had attempted to rape him, while Lee has said that he and a companion he identified in one interview as Zimmer Raz caught Navarro with his pants down in the act of forcing sexual contact with Cornejo in her bedroom.

Lee also clarified that the P1 million Navarro had agreed to pay his group was for the damages to Cornejo’s condo that resulted from the scuffle.

Cornejo said on Monday that she will sue Navarro for attempted rape and libel.

source: interaksyon.com

NBI bares how 8 lawmakers 'amassed' P835-M pork in their deals with Napoles

MANILA, Philippines - How did eight legislators led by senators Ramon "Bong" Revilla Jr., Jinggoy Estrada, and Juan Ponce Enrile allegedly amass P835 million in kickbacks through their dealings with businesswoman Janet Lim-Napoles?

The National Bureau of Investigation (NBI), which recommended the filing of plunder, malversation, direct bribery, and graft and corrupt practices against the lawmakers, accused the legislators of engaging in eight-step "modus operandi."

1) Napoles and lawmaker agree that the businesswoman's non-government organization (NGO) will be the recipient of the legislator's Priority Development Assistance Fund for purposes of supposedly implementing projects authorized by the Department of Budget and Management (DBM).

In exchange for selecting Napoles' NGO, the lawmaker will receive from the businesswoman 40 to 60 percent of the cash value of the project as kickback.
2) Lawmaker submits a list of projects to the DBM.

3) DBM in turn issues a Special Allotment Releases Order (SARO) to the lawmaker, who then endorses a selected Napoles NGO to the implementing agency.

4) Without any public bidding, the implementing agency enters into a memorandum agreement with the Napoles NGO for the implementation of the project.

5) After documentation is completed, the DBM issues a Notice of Cash Allocation (NCA) to the implementing agency.

6) Upon receipt of the NCA, the implementing agency issues a check to Napoles' NGO, which is deposited by JLN Corp. employees to the bank before it is withdrawn in cash and delivered to Napoles.

7) Along the way, the kickback of the lawmaker is already paid by Napoles in advance - first, upon submission of the project list to DBM, second, upon release of the SARO.

The chief-of-staff of the lawmaker or his representative, who facilitates documents and follow ups  with agencies for Napoles and the legislator, also gets 1 to 5 percent of the project cost, also as  kickback.
8) Napoles pockets the rest of the pork barrel funds after deducting the cost of overpriced supplies such as as agricultural lits and training materials procured from a supplier enterprise, which is owned by the businesswoman. The full remaining amount is pocketed by Napoles if there is no delivery of supplies.

78% of 'plundered' PDAF amassed by senators

Of the P745.63 million worth of PDAF allegedly amassed by five lawmakers in their transaction with co-conspirator Napoles, 78 percent or P581.14 million was accumulated by Revilla (P224.512 million), Estrada (183.793 million), and Enrile (172.834 milllion), according to the NBI.

The rest, 22 percent or P164.49 million, was allegedly amassed by former representative and incumbent Masbate governor Rizalina Seachon-Lanete (P108.405 million) and former APEC partylist Rep. Edgard Valdez (P56.087 million).

Three other former lawmakers were accused by the NBI of committing malversation, direct bribery, and other graft and corrupt practices for allegedly amassing a total of P89.752 million from their PDAF.

They are former representatives Rodolofo Plaza of Agusan del Sur (P42.137 million), Samuel Dangwa of Benguet (P26.770 million), and Constantino Jaraula of Cagayan de Oro (20.843 million).

The NBI said the amount allegedly amassed by the three former representatives "are the lawmakers' bribe for giving undue favor to a Napoles NGO, or represent his illegally contracted share from a malversation scheme designed to misuse and misappropriate public funds entrusted to him, and which he appropriates instead for private gain rather (than for) public benefit intended by law."

source: interaksyon.com

Napoles ordered arrested on illegal detention raps filed by pork scam whistleblower

MANILA, Philippines -- The National Bureau of Investigation moved to arrest businesswoman Janet Lim-Napoles Wednesday after a court issued a warrant for her arrest over the serious illegal detention case filed against her by the whistleblower in the alleged P10-billion pork barrel scam she is accused of engineering.

Justice Leila de Lima confirmed the warrants against Napoles and her brother Reynald “Jojo” Lim were issued Wednesday afternoon by Makati Regional Trial Court Branch 150. 



"An NBI team is on its way to implement" the warrant, De Lima said Wednesday evening.

No bail has been recommended for the siblings.

De Lima said the DOJ had granted the motions for reconsideration filed by the NBI and pork barrel scam whistleblower Benhur Luy on the department’s earlier dismissal of the charges against Napoles and Lim.

Luy spilled the beans on the alleged scam, which supposedly involved lawmakers handing over billions of pesos from their Priority Development Assistance Fund to non-existent projects proposed by bogus nongovernmental organizations supposedly set up by Napoles.

The whistleblower was allegedly abducted December last year after he attempted to set up a similar operation.

Luy also said his detention was supposed to prevent him from exposing the scam.

He was rescued in March by the NBI from a condominium unit in Taguig City.

source: interaksyon.com

NBI nabs 6 Taiwanese implicated in credit card fraud

MANILA - The National Bureau of Investigation has arrested six Taiwanese nationals allegedly involved in credit card fraud and the duplication of ATM cards. One of them tried to bribe the agents with P500,000, and was promotly slapped with a separate charge of attempted bribery.

A report submitted to NBI Director Nonnatus Caesar Rojas on Thursday named those arrested by members of the NBI Cybercrime Division as: Cheng-Yen Yu, 25; Chih-Cheng Chang, 35; Chia-Hung Hung, 26; Sen-Yuan Wu, 24; Chun-Kai Tsou, 25 and Wen-Hao Wu, 26, all with address at Unit 4D, Regency Park Townhomes, J. Abad Santos Hi-Way corner E. Aguinaldo Street, Clark Special Economic Zone in Pampanga.

The six have been charged with violation of Republic Act 8484 or the Access, Devices, Regulation Act of 1998 before the Pampanga Prosecutor's Office.

Chih-Cheng Chang is also facing an additional complaint for corruption of public officials for attempting to bribe the NBI operatives.

Seized by the NBI-CCD team from the suspects were the P500,000 cash used in trying to bribe the agents, counterfeit automated teller machine cards and counterfeit credit cards, electronic gadgets used in illegal duplication of credit cards and ATM cards, and documents.

The NBI arrested the six Taiwanese nationals last June 4 after a series of surveillance operations.

Found in the suspects' possession were several electronic gadgets, devices, ATM cards, credit cards, and documents with Chinese characters which were being used and intended to be used in the illegal activities of duplication, unauthorized use/access of credit cards/ATM cards.

source: interaksyon.com

Couple accused of maltreating helper surfaces at NBI

A couple ordered arrested for allegedly maltreating their household helper surrendered to the National Bureau of Investigation in Manila Monday.

Reynold and Analiza Marzan, who were charged for maltreating helper Bonita Baran, surfaced at the NBI before noon, radio dzBB's Cecilia Villarosa reported.

The report quoted NBI Director Nonnatus Caesar Rojas as saying the couple had a lawyer with them when they arrived.

He added the couple will stay at the NBI for now, while the bureau coordinates with the office of Senate President Pro Tempore Jose "Jinggoy" Estrada.

Estrada had sought the arrest of the couple for maltreating their helper.

Last week, Vice President Jejomar Binay suggested that the government put up a bounty for the couple's arrest.

Binay noted the couple had gone into hiding after a Quezon City court issued a warrant for their arrest.

Earlier, Baran said her employers had hit her repeatedly with plates, vases and a broomstick. She added her female employer pressed a hot flat iron on her face, costing her her eyesight. — BM, GMA News

source: gmanetwork.com