Lawyer: Documents show pork scam money trail

MANILA - Whistle-blowers in the alleged P10 billion pork barrel scam are set to submit a 10-foot high stack of documents for the possible filing of a plunder case against Janet Lim Napoles and several lawmakers, their lawyer said Wednesday. Lawyer Levito Baligod said the whistle-blowers are now finalizing and reproducing sworn statements and annexes that will match the accounting records of primary whistle-blower and former Napoles aide Benhur Luy. He said the documents will establish the "money trail" of how pork barrel funds from lawmakers went to fake non-governmental organizations set up by Napoles, which then went back to the pockets of legislators. "We need to establish the money trail so the accounts of the whistleblowers start with the deposit of government funds to the accounts of the NGOs. They withdrew the money and gave it to Mrs. Napoles and from Mrs. Napoles, they narrated how the money was disbursed...They are saying that commissions and kickbacks came from the money withdrawn from the accounts of the NGOs," he said in a radio dzMM interview. Radio dzMM, September 11, 2013