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MANILA, Philippines — Rep. Paolo Duterte (Davao City) has denied having transacted with former Customs intelligence officer Jimmy Guban, who recently namedropped him and two others as being the true owners of the multi-billion peso shabu smuggled into the country through magnetic lifters in 2018.
MANILA, Philippines — Davao City Rep. Paolo "Polong" Duterte said that he does not know the former Bureau of Customs intelligence officer who linked him and others to the smuggling of illegal drugs, including P11 billion worth of methamphetamine hydrochloride (shabu) confiscated in 2018.
(UPDATES) BACOLOR, Pampanga — A former customs intelligence officer on Friday linked the son and son-in-law of former president Rodrigo Duterte and his former economic adviser to the case involving the smuggling of an estimated P11 billion worth of shabu into the country in 2018.
MANILA, Philippines — A former intelligence officer of the Bureau of Customs yesterday linked Davao City Rep. Paolo “Polong” Duterte to the smuggling of illegal drugs, including P11 billion worth of methamphetamine hydrochloride or shabu confiscated in 2018.
MANILA, Philippines (Updated 6:18 p.m.) — Jimmy Guban, a former Customs officer who served as a key witness in a shabu smuggling controversy under former President Rodrigo Duterte, has resurfaced to confess that it was Rep. Paolo Duterte (First District, Davao City), Manases Carpio and Michael Yang who owned the magnetic lifters that were found to have concealed P11-billion worth of illegal drugs in 2018. Guban told the House quad-committee on Friday during its first inquiry that he lied about the persons responsible for the illegal shipment of shabu during his testimony to the Senate in 2018 because of threats to his and his family's life. The embattled former Customers intelligence officer took back his testimony six years ago to implicate three people with ties to the former president: president's eldest son, Vice President Sara Duterte's husband, and the president's former economic adviser. Alongside his bombshell admission, Guban also recanted his statement accusing former police official Eduardo Acierto of owning the P11-billion shabu shipment during his trial for charges related to importing dangerous drugs. For this case, he was sentenced to life imprisonment last year. All this was bared before the House mega-panel, which was created to fuse together the investigations being conducted by four House committees: dangerous drugs, public order & safety, human rights and public acounts.
MANILA, Philippines — There is now a detention facility for resource persons who will be cited in contempt during House committee hearings.
MANILA, Philippines — The House of Representatives believes that drug syndicates in the country use illegal Philippine offshore gaming operators (POGOs) to launder dirty money, as proven by a series of investigations among several committees.
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.