“Former Anti-Poverty Commission Undersecretary Catherine Mae ‘Maya’ Santos served as the conduit between Sen. Ferdinand ‘Bongbong’ Marcos Jr. and detained businesswoman Janet Lim-Napoles in routing millions of pesos in government funds to bogus foundations and ghost livelihood projects, documents obtained by the Inquirer showed. In 2011 after Santos moved to the Senate office of Marcos as his officer in charge, Masaganang Ani para sa Magsasaka Foundation Inc. (Mamfi) received P24.25 million for livelihood projects in Davao del Sur and Davao Oriental supposedly endorsed by the senator. Xxx. Marcos was earlier reported by the COA to have endorsed in 2012 P100 million of his pork-barrel allocation to Napoles’ dummy NGOs—Ginintuang Alay sa Magsasaka Foundation Inc. (P5 million), Agricultura para sa Magbubukid Foundation Inc. (P25 million), Kaupdanan para sa Mangunguma Foundation Inc. (P25 million) and Agri and Economic Program for Farmers Foundation Inc. (P45 million) through the National Livelihood Development Corp. Xxx.” Inquirer, 10/28/13
Posted on: Wed, 30 Oct 2013 00:35:57 +0000
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