The children of detained businesswoman Janet Lim Napoles helped facilitate the fake liquidation documents for alleged ghost projects using the Priority Development Assistant Funds (PDAF) of former senator and now Chief Presidential Legal Counsel Juan Ponce Enrile.
This is according to pork barrel scam whistleblower Benhur Luy at the continuation of the trial for the 15 graft cases against Enrile and the Napoleses.
Luy was made the admission as he was cross-examined by lawyer Marcelo Rempillo, Jr., the counsel of Jo Christine and James Christopher Napoles– asking the prosecution witness if he actually saw the two faking signatures of supposed farmer-beneficiaries.
“Did you actually see with your very own eyes Jo Christine and James Christopher in the act of faking these liquidation documents?” Rempillo asked. “Yes. I was present in the conference room, we did it in the conference room po,” Luy said.
Luy recalled the conference room has a 7-seater table but there were also additional plastic “monobloc” chairs.
According to him, not only Napoles and her children but there were also other employees doing the task of forging signatures. Luy identified them as Mary Arlene Baltazar and Merlina Suñas.
Luy alleged the practice at the Janet Lim Napoles Corporation was to forge signatures in liquidation documents whenever checks were released to non-government organizations.
“How far were you (from Jo Christine and James Christopher)?” Rempillo asked. “There were occasions, magkatabi, arms length,” Luy said.