FIVE incumbent senators and four former members of the Senate implicated in the Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF) or pork barrel scam are being investigated by the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI), an official of the bureau said on Tuesday.

Rodante Berou, chief of the NBI’s Special Operations Group, made the admission when he took the witness stand on Tuesday during a bail hearing of former Masbate Rep. Rizalina Seachon-Lanete at the Sandiganbayan’s Fourth Division. Lanete is the incumbent governor of Masbate.

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