Janet Napoles will remain in prison despite the acquittal as she serves her sentence in her other cases, where she had been convicted
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The 98-page decision found prosecutors’ evidence insufficient to convict Napoles, NLDC president Gondelina Amata, and NLDC assets management division chief Gregorio Buenaventura. They claimed the money went to the pockets of Napoles and the NLDC officials among others, instead of Ortega’s district to finance his livelihood programs.
Prosecutors, using the findings of the Ombudsman’s Field Investigation Office , also tried to refute the existence of farmer-beneficiaries of the livelihood project in Bangar, La Union, but the court cast doubts on the accuracy of the probe’s results.
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