‘Remulla has disclosed that the alleged mastermind has a very strong influence on the courts.’
COUNTLESS shipments of shabu are seized by the authorities daily and it seems that nothing can stand in the way of the rampant importation and perennial local trafficking of the dangerous drug.
In addition to going after lazy police commanders and axing them, shouldn’t PNP Chief Gen. Nicolas Torre III pursue the more deadly criminals involved in the huge drug industry? Former vice president and drug czar Leni Robredo tried to address the deeper problems of demand and community, which required a holistic and more humane approach, but was virtually stopped in her tracks when drug lords started “feeling the heat.”
Is Torre waiting for the day when most PNP officers and men are ultimately embedded in the rapidly expanding web of drug and crime syndicates, as has happened in Colombia and other countries in South America?
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We hope that Justice Secretary Boying Remulla is not intimidated by the ultra-wealthy mastermind of the reported killing of 34 sabungeros whose remains, according to an arrested suspect, were buried at Taal Lake. Remulla has disclosed that the alleged mastermind has a very strong influence on the courts.
Remulla said that he was going to talk to the SC Chief Justice about this. In this particular high crime involving at least 20 police officers and several fiscals, as in others in which he is lawfully mandated to pursue to the end, he will be up directly against the vicious proponents of the prevailing culture of corruption, harassment, bribery and extortion that brazenly characterize the ever-broken criminal justice system.
A prominent personality known to have organized highly lucrative business deals with former presidents who dominate the e-sabong gambling businesses in the country may be able to shed light on the heinous crime of 34 murders.
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There are dark secrets that seem to feed on Senate President Chiz Escudero’s handling of the Senate impeachment trial, which hangs in uncertainty, apparently after politics had its way and consigned a crucial constitutional provision to oblivion. He is very much aware of the voluminous and damaging evidence against Vice President Sarah Duterte that includes the alleged Duterte bank accounts.
