A DAUGHTER and son of businesswoman Janet Lim-Napoles, alleged brains of the P10-billion pork barrel scam, eluded arraignment on graft charges leveled against them in connection with the racket by filing a petition to postpone the indictment.

Lawyer Dennis Pulma, the Clerk of Court of the Sandiganbayan’s Third Division, on Friday said the deferment of the arraignment of Jo Christine Napoles and James Christopher Napoles stemmed from the motion for reconsideration of the anti-graft court’s September 30 resolution indicting them for the graft charges.

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