Ex-House leader linked to ‘pork’ scandal

Camarines Sur leaders pressed the Department of Justice (DOJ) to include ex-Deputy Speaker Arnulfo Fuentebella in the list of lawmakers that the President wants the Inter-Agency Anti-Graft Coordinating Council (IAAGCC) to prosecute in connection with the much-ballyhooed P10-billion in pork raked over the years by Janet Lim-Napoles.

Citing a recent hearing of the House appropriations committee, the leaders said Agriculture Secretary Proceso Alcala identified Fuentebella as one of six legislators who allocated a combined P83.2 million of their pork outlays at the Department of Agriculture (DA) for the Kaupdanan para sa Mangunguma Foundation (KPMI)—one of Napoles’s alleged bogus NGOs.