Former TRC exec is new gov't witness in pork scam case, says De Lima - Inquirer.net

By Tetch Torres-Tupas

INQUIRER.net

12:52 pm | Friday, February 21st, 2014

Justice Secretary Leila De Lima. INQUIRER.net file photo

MANILA, Philippines–Justice Secretary Leila de Lima on Friday confirmed that former Deputy Director General of Technology Resource Center Dennis Cunanan, one of the respondents in the pork barrel scam case, is now a government witness.

At a press conference, De Lima said Cunanan has been admitted to the government’s Witness Protection Program provisionally subject to further evaluation and approval by the Office of the Ombudsman.

De Lima said Cunana’s testimony belies claims of senators that they have no knowledge in handpicking the non-government organizations that were beneficiaries of their pork barrel funds and that their or their chiefs of staff’s signatures were falsified in these deals.

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