DEFENSE lawyer Stephen David on Thursday accused an Office of the Ombudsman prosecutor of threatening former employees of Janet Lim-Napoles, the alleged mastermind of P10-billion pork barrel scam, with numerous criminal charges should they refuse to testify and cooperate with government prosecutors in connection with the P900-million Malampaya fund scam.

David claimed that lawyer Ryan Medrano of the Field Investigation Office has been harassing the former employees of Napoles to testify for the government in the P900-million Malampaya fund scam, threatening that they will face charges in connection with the Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF) and Malampaya scams if they will not cooperate.

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