MANILA — Bayan Muna Party-list Rep. Neri Colme-nares on Thursday said that the supposed USD12.5 M assets of businesswoman Janet Lim Napoles should be forfeited in favor of the Philippine government so that it would be used for the upliftment of its supposed target beneficiaries ‘the Filipino people’.
This after the US Justice Department moved to seize USD12.5 M in assets of Napoles. The complaint filed in the Los Angeles Federal District Court said Napoles paid tens of millions of dollars in bribes to Philippine politicians and officials from 2004-2012 to get USD200 million in funds which were supposed to help poor Filipinos.
The department filed a civil forfeiture complaint to gain control of assets including a swank Los Angeles condominium, a motel near Dis-neyland, and a Porsche Boxster that Napoles bought for a daughter allegedly with money intended for development and disaster relief.
“It should be the Filipino people who should benefit from this and not foreigners. The Philippine government should work overtime to look for other assets of Napoles in other countries so that they would be recovered for the people,” said Colmenares. (PNA)
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