AN anti-crime advocacy group urged Congress to repeal a 38-year-old law that grants immunity to people who give bribes to prevent Janet Lim Napoles, the woman in the center of the pork barrel controversy, from hiding behind this law.
Dante Jimenez, Volunteers Against Crime and Corruption (VACC) founding chairman, said Congress should repeal PD 749 which grants immunity from prosecution to bribe givers if they testify against government officials who received the bribe.
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