While snide remarks have circulated regarding the so-called “special treatment” given to Janet Lim-Napoles while being detained, Interior Secretary Manuel “Mar” Roxas 2nd on  Monday shrugged them off, saying it was better to have her alive than dead.

Napoles, the suspected brain of the P10 billion pork barrel scam, was transferred from the Makati City Jail to Fort Sto. Domingo in Sta. Rosa, Laguna early on Sunday after her lawyer Lorna Kapunan petitioned the court to do the transfer to the police camp for safety reasons.

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