By Perfecto Raymundo
MANILA, (PNA) — The National Bureau of Investigation is continuously determining the identity of big personalities behind Ruby Tuazon as well as those implicated in the plunder case in connection with the misuse of the Priority Development Assistance Fund and the Malampaya funds.
According to Justice Secretary Leila M. De Lima, the NBI is also gathering strong and sufficient evidence to prove whoever is the principal or principals of Tuazon.
In the NBI investigation, Tuazon got the biggest “kickback” from the Malampaya funds allotted to “ghost projects” of the non-governmental organizations of Janet Lim Napoles amounting to more than P240 million.
Napoles is the alleged “brains” behind the P10-billion pork barrel scam and the P900-million Malampaya Fund scam.
De Lima gave assurances they will immediately file an amended or supplemental letter complaint before the Office of the Ombudsman when they have already identified the principal of Tuazon so that it will be included in the accused in the squander of the P900-million Malampaya Fund.
Tuazon served as social secretary of former President and now Manila Mayor Joseph “Erap” Ejercito Estrada.
She left the country last August even before the PDAF and Malampaya plunder case was filed before the Ombudsman.