Blue ribbon fails to get Benhur files

THE Senate blue ribbon committee failed to get digital records that it had requested from pork barrel scam whistleblower Benhur Luy and was even advised by Luy to direct its request to the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI), which is keeping the files.

In a letter addressed to Sen. Teofisto Guingona 3rd, chairman of the blue ribbon committee, Luy’s lawyer Raymund Joseph Mendoza informed the senator that a copy of the digital records related to the priority development assistance fund (PDAF) or pork barrel scam had already been submitted by his client to the NBI cybercrime division and it would be more prudent to refer any subpoena to the agency.