Malacañang is seeking truth and accountability behind the controversial inclusion of plunder convict Janet Lim Napoles in the list of convicts released for good conduct.
Presidential spokesman Salvador Panelo said heads will roll in the Bureau of Corrections if the investigation shows the culpability of any person for the latest anomaly.
“Let the investigation proceed and let the truth come out and thereafter heads will roll,” he said.
Napoles was supposedly among the inmates freed under the Good Conduct Time Allowance law in a list given by the Bureau of Corrections to the Senate. The list supposedly showed Napoles was convicted of rape and was released from prison in November 2018.
The Department of Justice has clarified that Napoles remains in the women’s correctional facility and has not been released. The businesswoman was convicted of plunder by the anti-graft court over her involvement in the “pork barrel” fund scam.
The Palace earlier confirmed that a revamp in the BuCor was in the offing following the questionable release of heinous crime convicts based on wrongful interpretation of the Republic Act No. 10592 or the GCTA law.
“I think so, given what we are seeing now in the Senate investigation, mukhang masyadong talamak. Palagay ko gagawan ng paraan ni Presidente iyon,” Panelo said. (Genalyn Kabiling)
