Tag: drug smuggling

Immigration, police authorities now looking into Lacson’s claims about alleged drug smuggler Jacky Co

(Eagle News)–Immigration and police authorities are looking into Senator Panfilo Lacson’s claims Chinese national Jacky Co was behind the 276 kilograms of shabu seized from the Manila International Container Port in March. In a television interview, Immigration Spokesperson Dana Sandoval said Commissioner Jaime Morente had ordered a probe into Lacson’s allegations Co  managed to enter the country even if he was on the Interpol list. Philippine National Police spokesperson Colonel Bernard Banac, for his part, […]

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Duterte says he told Navy to blow up vessels of drug smugglers

(Eagle News)–President Rodrigo Duterte on Saturday, April 13, said he advised the Navy to blow up the vessels of drug smugglers. Duterte issued the remark in Malaybalay, Bukidnon amid the recent discoveries of cocaine blocs floating off Philippine waters. Only recently, around 40 bricks were found off the coast of Burgos in Caraga. Blocks of cocaine have also been found off Catanduanes and Surigao del Norte, among others. “Ang cocaine ‘yan ang ginagawa ng mga […]

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Palace says Duterte still trusts Customs Chief Lapeña; DOJ orders NBI to probe latest incidents of drug smuggling

(Eagle News) — Customs chief Isidro Lapeña still has the trust of President Rodrigo Duterte despite the smuggling of  an estimated  P6.8 billion of shabu into the country last week, the Palace said on Monday, Aug. 13. “Buo ang paniniwala at tiwala pa rin ni Presidente kay General Lapeña  at ang nais niyang mangyari is paano masusugpo ito at matigil na itong practice na ito, at hahabulin pa rin natin yung kung ano man yung nakapasok kung […]

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President Duterte vows fair trial for Russian drug smuggling suspects

President Rodrigo Duterte has pledged two accused Russian drug traffickers would get a “fair trial.” Duterte made the commitment at a meeting late Monday with Russian Prime Minister Dmitri Medvedev on the sidelines of a regional summit in Manila. “I would just like to say that we have a working functional justice system here and they will get a fair trial and that they will be detained in a comfortable house,” Duterte told Medvedev, according […]

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