Benjamin Magalong, said Oplan Cronus, put together by the CIDG and the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency, was supposed to isolate drug lords operating in the New Bilibid Prison. The original plan was squashed, with De Lima, Bureau of Corrections chief Franklin Bucayo; Chief Supt. Oplan Cronus was supposed to isolate high-value inmates to get rid of the worsening drug trade in the NBP but others were left out,” Magalong said. Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre II and other inmates said the raid was meant to ease out the competition to allow drug lord Jaybee Sebastian to lord it over the multibillion drug trade in the NBP. The real intention was for the favored drug lord Jaybee Sebastian [to control] the multibillion drug trade in the NBP.

Source: The Standard September 21, 2016 15:56 UTC