The Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) spread out the P900-million contract awarded to jailed businesswoman Janet Lim-Napoles into 97 smaller contracts so that the memorandums of agreements (MOA) between the agency and 12 non-government organizations (NGOs) of Napoles can be signed by a former undersecretary, the Commission on Audit (COA) revealed.

A special audit on the Malampaya funds released to the DAR found that the contracts with the 12 NGOs linked to Napoles were split into 97 memorandums.

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