Ex-Duterte adviser Yang flees, evades House order

CHINESE businessman Michael Yang left the country for Dubai before the House of Representatives could serve the arrest warrant it issued against him for his repeated failure to attend the panel’s hearing on the discovery of 560 kilos of shabu in a warehouse in Mexico, Pampanga last September.

“We were informed na ang (that the) subject ng (of the) arrest order ay wala na ho rito (is no longer here). ‘Yun (the) last information that we have, he is in Dubai,” Surigao del Norte Rep. Robert Ace Barbers, chair of the House committee on dangerous drugs, told a press conference.

Yang, also known as Yang Hong Ming who served as an adviser to former President Rodrigo Duterte, was cited in contempt and ordered arrested by the dangerous drugs panel last July 10.

The panel summoned Yang after he was linked to an incorporator of Empire 999 Realty Corp., which owns the warehouse in Mexico tow, where P3.6 billion worth of shabu was seized.

It was through the Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority (SBMA) port that the illegal drugs entered the country before being transported to Barangay San Jose Malino in Mexico.

House Sergeant-at-Arms, retired Gen. Napoleon Taas and his team, have already served the arrest order at Fortun-Law Offices at 134 CRM Avenue, BF Homes Almanza, Las Piñas City after House Secretary General Reginald Velasco signed the contempt order.

Last May, Yang’s lawyer, lawyer Raymund Fortun, attended the hearing, saying his client was so busy that he had to leave the country eight times since October last year.

Barbers said his committee will coordinate with the Bureau of Immigration and the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) to alert other countries about the arrest order.

“Itong arrest order na ito (This arrest order), we will have to provide information to the Immigration and DFA so that the DFA and our Immigration can likewise alarm other countries about the arrest order na inisyu dito (issued here) sa (at the) House of Representatives,” he said.

“So that we will be able to track kung nasaan siya kasi maaaring lumipat-lipat na rin siya (where he is because he may have already left again). So kapag (if there’s) may (an) alarm, it will now provide us information