A Facebook post claiming that drug money was donated to the campaign of former Interior Secretary Manuel “Mar” Roxas II and Vice President Leni Robredo in the 2016 elections is fake, the Agence France Presse (AFP) reported on Wednesday. The AFP, however, debunked the information, saying that “Ozamis City” and the “Parohinog family” do not exist in government records. However, Ozamiz City and its former mayor Reynaldo Parojinog exist and that a drug trade happened last 2017, which killed 12 people, including Parajinog. In an official list obtained by AFP, the Parojinogs were not included among the donors to Robredo’s campaign fund in 2016. They were also not listed as the campaign contributors of Roxas when he ran for president in 2016, records from the Commission on Elections (Comelec) show.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer October 31, 2018 10:17 UTC