AMID Malacañang’s assurances that the government will do everything to recover the loot of persons involved in the pork barrel scam, a Manila court discovered on Thursday that P40 million was withdrawn from the bank account of Janet Lim-Napoles and her cohorts.

The bank deposit was previously covered by a freeze order issued by Manila Regional Trial Court Branch 22 Judge Marino dela Cruz Jr. The court found out that the withdrawals from the bank account of First Integrated Bonding and Insurance Inc. (FIBI) were made at an unnamed branch of the United Coconut Planters Bank (UCPB) after May 26, 2014, the date the freeze order lapsed. Napoles was a stockholder of FIBI. When the judge issued the court order, the FIBI account had more than P49 million.

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