Tag: 6.4 billion

Ombudsman creates fact-finding panel to probe P6.4-B shabu shipment

  (Eagle News) — The Office of the Ombudsman has created a panel that will hold a fact-finding investigation into the P6.4-billion worth of shabu that entered the country in May via Customs express lanes. The Ombudsman made the announcement in a brief statement released on Tuesday.   “The release (of the drugs) was allegedly facilitated by public officials who were identified as members of the ‘Davao Group’ by Customs broker Mark Ruben Taguba II,” […]

Alleged middleman in P6.4-b drug shipment arrested in connection with rape case after Senate hearing

(Eagle News) — National Bureau of Investigation agents arrested the alleged middleman in the P6.4-billion drug shipment that entered the country in May after the Senate blue ribbon committee hearing on Tuesday. NBI deputy director Ferdinand Lavin said in an ambush interview that Kenneth Dong was arrested by virtue of a warrant of arrest issued by the Paranaque regional trial court in connection with a case of rape he is facing. In a press conference, […]