Call it a delaying tactic if you want, but alleged Pork barrel queen Janet Lim- Napoles may have to stay longer inside the comforts of one of the airconditioned rooms in Ospital ng Makati until she settles her surgery bill amounting to more than P97K.
In a news report from Interaksyon News5, the Philippine National Police said on Wednesday that Napoles has yet to be discharged from the Ospital ng Makati, where she underwent surgery late last month, because she has yet to settle her bill of P97,116.43.
Chief Superintendent Reuben Theodore Sindac, PNP spokesman said there is a recommendation that Napoles’ transfer back to Fort Sto. Domingo “be held in abeyance pending (the) issuance of (a) discharge order from Osmak and for the prosecution to file (a) motion for transfer…”
Aside from this, Sindac said Napoles has filed a motion with the Makati regional trial court for the extension of her hospital stay.
The motion is scheduled for hearing on May 14.
Napoles, who is accused of engineering the pork barrel scam, was admitted to the OsMak last month where she had her uterus and ovaries removed because of a growth that had developed.
She had been detained in Fort Sto. Domingo in Laguna, headquarters of the police Special Action Force, on charges of serious illegal detention filed against her by her relative and former employee Benhur Luy, the government’s primary whistleblower in the pork barrel scam.
The case is being tried by the Makati court.
Aside from this, Napoles is also among those against whom complaints for plunder and graft have been filed before the Office of the Ombudsman for the pork barrel scam and another anomaly involving the alleged misuse of revenues from the Malampaya natural gas field.
According to the charges, the businesswoman, colluding with lawmakers and officials of government agencies, supposedly funneled off as much as P10 billion from the Priority Development Assistance Fund to bogus nongovernmental organizations.
A similar modus was apparently used to divert the Malampaya funds.