FORMER senator Panfilo Lacson is convinced that the Executive department created the highly controversial Development Acceleration Program (DAP) to cover the release of additional P50 million to P100 million to some senators who convicted former chief justice Renato Corona in 2012.

The former lawmaker also made it clear that although he was among those who voted to convict Corona, he never availed of the DAP fund because he believed that the additional allocation was part of the priority development assistance fund (PDAF) or pork barrel.

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