Napoles may have dipped into ‘insertion’ funds

ASIDE from the priority development assistance fund (PDAF), detained businesswoman Janet Lim-Napoles may have also handled transactions involving funds sourced from “congressional insertions” introduced by lawmakers during deliberations on the national budget, Sen. Antonio Trillanes 4th said on Thursday.

According to Trillanes, congressional insertions are considered as additional funds of the lawmakers on top of their annual PDAF or pork barrel allocations—P200 million per senator and P70 million per congressman—to help them push projects for their constituents.