Napoles’ mother will miss her

For the first time in years, Janet Napoles will miss visiting the grave of her mother, Magdalena Lim, at the family mausoleum in Heritage Park in Taguig City. Napoles is detained in Fort Sto Domingo over an illegal detention charge involving key pork barrel scam witness Benhur Luy. Janet’s mother, Magdalena, died in February 2008. She was a deeply religious woman known to have helped poor priests and seminarians in China. On the eve of All Saints’ Day, the air-conditioned mausoleum – valued at about P30 million – had only a few people inside. It was also at the mausoleum where Janet Napoles previously hosted Halloween parties. She invited VIPs from both political and entertainment circles, including Senate President Franklin Drilon and his wife Mila. The mausoleum is the same place where Napoles met with Presidential Spokesperson Edwin Lacierda on August 28 to negotiate her surrender to President Benigno Aquino III.

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