ANTI-corruption advocates are backing the Justice department’s move to place pork barrel scam prime suspect Janet Napoles under the Witness Protection Program (WPP), saying this would allow the public to know what really happened in the P10-billion pork barrel scam.

Volunteers Against Crime and Corruption (VACC) spokesman Arsenio “Boy” Evangelista said the group saw wisdom in the decision of the Department of Justice (DoJ) as Napoles was the one who invented and implemented the scheme to funnel development funds to bogus nongovernment organizations.

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