Informants of the police and the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency are being paid for profitable suggestions with confiscated medicine that they then promote on the road, House harmful medicine panel chairperson Robert Ace Barbers of Surigao del Norte mentioned Tuesday.
Barbers mentioned this was disclosed by an informant to him throughout an government session.
“A substantial amount of illegal drugs hauled, seized and confiscated by the PNP [Philippine National Police] and PDEA are being recycled for the past 20 years. This fact was revealed today by an asset/informant of the two agencies who admitted being given ‘basura’—street lingo for shabu—by anti-illegal drug operatives of the two agencies every time they make a bust based on his tips,” Barbers mentioned, including that the property are given 30% to as a lot as 70% of the haul.
“Binibigyan ng shabu o part of the evidence for the assets to sell it to the streets. Kapag naging cash na ito, na-convert na into cash, binabalik na ito sa operatives…Doon siya magkakaroon ng porsiyento,” he additionally mentioned in Tina Panganiban-Perez’s report on “24 Oras.”
At the House panel listening to, PDEA Director General Virgilio Lazo mentioned that often informants would ask their brokers for among the seized medicine for that objective, however that they’d be turned down.
“They approached one acquaintance of mine who was also helping me in PDEA…sabi nila, ‘Yun, sir, ang kalakaran kahit sa kabila.’…They mentioned the PNP…I want to make it clear that their proposals were rejected outright,” he mentioned.
At the identical listening to, Police Brigadier General Allan Nobleza replied, “It is not the policy of the PNP to recycle any drugs in any drug operations.”
Barbers vowed to pursue prison prices towards these concerned within the scheme.
“In due time, if evidence warrants, criminal charges will be filed,” he mentioned.
“We will not stop until we have unmasked all these crooks in uniform who have doomed so many lives to live in luxury,” he added.
Barbers’ revelation was harking back to the revelation, throughout a joint Senate Blue Ribbon and Justice committee inquiry in 2019, that some police officers stored among the 200 kilos of unlawful medicine seized in a drug bust in Pampanga in 2013 to “recycle” them. — BM, GMA Integrated News
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