Jinggoy said that Ruby was the brains of the Malampaya P900 million scam, but Ruby denied involvement in it. Jinggoy should elaborate like a true the truth, nothing but the whole truth state witness even if he is not a state witness. Doesnt he know of the dictum For every action, there is an equal corresponding reaction? An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth is even read in the Bible. Doesnt Jinggoy read the Bible? Its just like a rocket shot into the sky, that there is an equal force shooting out from its tail to go up in to the sky. Who is this businessman whom Ruby is to have scam connectivity inferred by Tribune to be BS campaign contributor? Lady Nina Cacho-Olivares must dig, dig, dig who this is. +++++ Ruby Malampaya mastermind—Jinggoy Written by Benjamin B. Pulta and Angie M. Rosales Saturday, 03 May 2014 00:00 tribune.net.ph/headlines/ruby-malampaya-mastermind-jinggoy Sen. Jinggoy Estrada, one of the respondents in the plunder complaint, yesterday bared that Ruby Chan Tuason, whom Justice Secretary Leila de Lima had taken in then as a “provisional state witness,” is the brains behind the P900-million Malampaya fund scam which has remained pending in the office of De Lima and the Ombudsman. A Tribune source said that Tuason is being backed up by a well-known businessman as she is known to have had kickback dealings with the businessman on the Malampaya scam, especially during the campaign periods, passing these scammed funds as political campaign contributions. The source refused to identify the businessman, but only said that he was one of the biggest financiers of now President Aquino during the 2010 campaign period, although Aquino had not officially listed him down as a donor. The Ombudsman will be denying the motions for reconsideration of the accused in the plunder case against them, even if there has been no resolution released by her and her office. This was made evident after Ruby Tuason was granted immunity by Ombudsman Conchita Carpio-Morales yesterday. The former respondent in the plunder case over the alleged P10-billion pork barrel scam of Janet Lim Napoles, now a state witness, was pinpointed yesterday as the actual “brains” behind the purported P900 million kickbacks just for Tuason, supposedly looted in 2009 in the misuse of the Malampaya gas fund. “First of all, I really do not know how they derived the amount of P40 million. I know that she is the mastermind of the so-called Malampaya scam,” Senator Estrada yesterday revealed as he reacted to the decision of the Office of the Ombudsman granting Tuason’s application for immunity in the criminal prosecution in the alleged misappropriation of some lawmakers’ Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF). “And up to now, the Senate blue ribbon committee has not started investigating the alleged Malampaya scam. (Committee chairman) Sen. (Teofisto “TG”) Guingona has repeatedly said that he was about to start investigating the Malampaya scam, but to no avail,” the senator stressed. Estrada did not provide details as to his latest allegations against Tuason although in previous interviews, he claimed that he knows about her alleged involvement in the Malampaya scam when the issue broke out in the middle of last year. De Lima also yesterday said that Tuason will be charged for her involvement in the P 900 million Malampaya fund scam despite her offer to take the witness stand against opposition lawmakers in the pork barrel scam. It is more probable, however, that even as De Lima claims Tuason will be charged for the Malampaya scam, she would again be granted immunity on that charge. De Lima explained that the immunity from prosecution for criminal cases dangled by the government for Tuason does not cover the Malampaya case, which is currently in the fact-finding stage in the Office of the Ombudsman. “That case is still under evaluation of the FIO (field investigation office of the Ombudsman). It’s not yet even in the preliminary investigation stage. So theoretically, she can still be held liable in that case,” she told reporters in an ambush interview. Tuason had denied earlier her involvement in the Malampaya scam, pointing to her late brother Remy Chan as the one who had knowledge of the anomaly. The Department of Justice (DoJ) chief explained that Tuason’s immunity means she would no longer be indicted in the Sandigabayan for the plunder cases related to the pork barrel scam allegedly perpetrated by businesswoman Janet Lim-Napoles. De Lima and Ombudsman Conchita Carpio-Morales received the P40-million manager’s check from Tuason given to the government as “restitution” for her kickbacks in the fund anomaly where she allegedly served as “middle person” in Napoles’ transactions with Estrada and Enrile. She said the panel of prosecutors in the anti-graft body upheld the recommendation of the DoJ for Tuason to be utilized as state witness in the pork barrel cases. De Lima reiterated that the final decision on the fate of respondents wanting to turn state witness lies with the Ombudsman office. She added that the anti-graft body has not yet acted on the similar plea of former Technology Resource Center (TRC) head Dennis Cunanan. Senator Estrada said that he knew “nothing about it until this news item (on Malampaya fund scam) broke out. “During the term of former President Estrada, her job was to prepare the the food for the Palace’ guests and for her to deliver the wreaths for the important persons and friends who had died,” Estrada said in one of the interviews after delivering his privilege speech on Tuason last March 12. It will be recalled that Estrada bared in his speech that Tuason, who was once presidential secretary on social affairs of his father, former president and now Manila Mayor Joseph Estrada, received the biggest chunk in the P900 million Malampaya deal supposedly cornered by Napoles where Tuason pocketed as much as P242 million. This explains the numerous undisclosed properties of Tuason here and abroad, the senator said, which he also detailed in the same speech. Tuason, according to Estrada, has seven undisclosed properties here and abroad, one of which was a “product” of the alleged P900-million Malampaya fund scam in which she is also being implicated.
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