Gov’t can’t extradite Napoles to US” (8/3/18) the report said, because the so-called P10-billion “pork barrel scam queen,” Janet Lim Napoles, has to stay here to face this country’s own criminal charges against her.
Napoles’ extradition to the United States is being sought to answer money laundering indictments there against her and members of her family. Presidential spokesperson Harry Roque, however, said she could “be extradited to the United States only after the conclusion of her plunder cases in the country and her serving of jail sentences.”
In one word, never! Let’s do the simple math. Twenty years of trial in the Sandiganbayan, another 20 years in the Supreme Court—while she enjoys the comfort and convenience of being a special guest in a special detention cell; and if her jail sentences call for life imprisonment, Napoles can be extradited only in the next lifetime!
Please, for the love of God, let’s get her convicted more quickly in the United States and, then, after serving her sentence there, get her back where we can then take our sweet time to inflict upon her all the anguish and mental torture of the “inordinate delays” our justice system has by now mastered to perfection.
ROSE ANNE BARTOLOME, roseannebar88@yahoo.com