ADVERTISEMENT“What Rudy Lacadin revealed really had a lot of weight,” Gordon, speaking in Filipino, told reporters after the hearing conducted by the Senate justice committee, which he chairs. During the hearing, Lacadin said Albayalde called him to ask about the investigation he was conducting on the November 2013 anti-illegal drug raid in Mexico, Pampanga. READ: Lacadin implicates Albayalde in 2013 drug sting in PampangaAccording to Lacadin, Albayalde told him: “I only got a little [from that operation].”Albayalde denied this, saying it was “highly unlikely” that he would say such a thing. In an earlier hearing, Magalong said Albayalde intervened in the proposed dismissal of the 13 police officers involved in the drug sting. Like Gordon, Senate President Vicente Sotto III believes Lacadin’s statement carried a lot of weight.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer October 09, 2019 17:26 UTC