Lawyer says Napoles daughter back in PH
The youngest daughter of Janet Lim-Napoles, the alleged mastermind of the P10-billion pork barrel scam, returned to the country on Friday, her lawyer said.
“She returned to the Philippines on August 3, 2018 at 0335H. I personally fetched her at the NAIA (Ninoy Aquino International Airport),” lawyer Ian Encarnacion said in a text message on Saturday.
Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra disclosed on Friday that Jeane Catherine Napoles fled the the Philippines on July 27 or a few days before the U.S. government indicted her, her mother, and four other relatives for alleged money laundering.
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Encarnacion said his client “will face all the cases against her, both here and abroad.”
“We maintain our client’s innocence and we look forward to having these cases dismissed,” he said. /muf
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