EVEN if the Sandiganbayan has allowed Janet Lim-Napoles and two lawmakers implicated in the P10-billion Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF) scam to post bail, the businesswoman will remain in jail because she has been convicted of serious illegal detention, Malacañang said on Wednesday.
“It should be emphasized that Miss Napoles was convicted in April 2015 by the Makati Regional Trial Court for serious illegal detention. Accordingly, she cannot be released due to such conviction and the several other cases for plunder pending against her,” Communications Secretary Herminio Coloma Jr. said.
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