The Department of Justice (DOJ) confirmed on Friday that its National Prosecution Service (NPS) is conducting a case build-up against 21 individuals—including three incumbent senators—over alleged anomalies in flood control projects.
The list includes Senator Francis Joseph “Chiz” Escudero, Senator Emmanuel Joel Villanueva, and Senator Jose “Jinggoy” Estrada. Former Senator Ramon “Bong” Revilla Jr., Congressman Elizaldy “Zaldy” Co, and several former officials and private individuals were also named.
According to the DOJ, the case build-up was launched following the recommendation of the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI), which vetted sworn testimonies from dismissed Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) Bulacan 1st District engineers Henry Alcantara, Brice Hernandez, and Jaypee Mendoza, as well as former DPWH Undersecretary Roberto Bernardo.
The department emphasized that the sworn statements of these individuals provided investigators with the “basis for identifying these (21) individuals as having sufficient preliminary links to the acts under investigation.”
The DOJ added that those named in the NBI’s recommendation “will be required to answer, under the rule of law, the serious allegations now standing against them.”
Other personalities included in the case build-up are Undersecretary Mary Mitzi “Mitch” Lim Cajayon-Uy, businessman Maynard S. Ngu, Ms. Carleen Villa, Engineer Henry C. Alcantara, Mr. John Carlo Rivera, Ms. Linda “Victoria” Macanas, Mr. Juanito Mendoza, CPA, Ms. Sally Nicolas Santos, Mr. Jesse Mahusay, and several others.
The justice department clarified that inclusion in the NBI’s recommendation is based solely on sworn testimony under oath and not on speculation or rumor.
