Senate needs 100 days to find pork scam video proof - Manila Bulletin

by Mario Casayuran

February 17, 2014

Manila, Philippines – It will take the Senate security staff about 100 days to check and isolate the digital video recordings from its closed-circuit television (CCTV) sets of surprise witness Ruby Tuason arriving at the Senate building either with trays of foodstuffs or bags supposedly containing cash money from P8 million to P10 million in two occasions for Sen. Jose “Jinggoy’’ Estrada.

Senate security staff will have to view all these DVD discs every day of the week to complete their tasks, retired Air Force Maj. Gen. Jose V. Balajadia Jr., chief of the Office of the Senate Sergeant-at-Arms (OSAA), said.

The discs, if found, may not show Tuason carrying the trays of “pancit’’ or “empanadas’’ but the staff of Estrada who had admitted sending his personnel to help Tuason carry the foodstuffs from the Senate basement parking area.

Tuason had testified that she had given millions of pesos to Estrada as kickbacks from businesswoman Janet Lim Napoles, alleged brains behind the P10-billion pork barrel (Priority Development Assistance Fund) sometime in 2008.

The venues of the money drops were at the Senate and at the senator’s Greenhills (San Juan) residence, she said.

The Tuason testimony on the two money bag drops for Estrada did not sit well with Sen. Antonio “Sonny’’ Trillanes IV who remarked” Yun lang? (Is that all?).

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