FORMER SENATE president Juan F. Ponce Enrile has filed in the Sandiganbayan a motion requesting the prosecution for copies of evidence on the alleged P172.83 million pork-barrel kickbacks.
Mr. Enrile, through his counsel, filed before the Sandiganbayan 3rd division a Motion for the Production of Material Evidence in the Possession of the Prosecution on Feb. 27.
The motion refers to a “Bill of Particulars” filed by the Ombudsman Special Prosecutors on May 16, 2016, which provided a “breakdown of the amounts of the ‘kickbacks or commissions’ received, stating how the amount of P172,834,500.00 was arrived at.”
It also contained information on the corresponding projects from where commissions were received from 2004 to 2010, and on the non-government organizations linked to convicted plunderer Janet Lim-Napoles.
The NGOs were said to be recipients of Mr. Enrile’s Priority Development Assistance Fund projects. The breakdown also included the implementing agencies to which Mr. Enrile allegedly endorsed the NGOs.
“For a fuller and more accurate understanding of the above, the accused by his Motion asks the prosecution to produce any and all documents upon which the items in the Table are based as well as any written statement of any witness/ess in regard the same,” the Motion read.
The projects were implemented through the National Livelihood Development Corporation, in partnership with NGOs Agricultura Para sa Magbubukid Foundation, Inc. (APMFI) and Countrywide Agri and Rural Economic Development, Inc. (CARED).
The anti-graft court on Monday moved to hold trial on the plunder case of Mr. Enrile on March 11. The case stemmed from his alleged involvement with the PDAF scam, orchestrated by Ms. Napoles. — Charmaine A. Tadalan

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