(Eagle News) — Former Customs chief Isidro Lapeña on Friday, Nov. 23, filed libel charges against former Customs X-ray chief Lourdes Mangaoang.
The charges lodged before the Taguig Prosecutors Office stem from Mangaoang’s testimony before the Senate hearing the P11-billion shabu shipment that was allegedly smuggled inside the country that he said destroyed his reputation.
Mangaoang had said Lapeña, now the director-general of the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority, had been coaching witnesses being invited to the hearings that they be consistent with his earlier pronouncement that there was no basis for concluding the empty magnetic lifters found in Cavite contained shabu.
“Whatever was said in the Senate and in the lower house, the Commissioner gave them the consent to say all those things,” she had said.
