Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) Director General Aaron Aquino maintained that the four magnetic lifters found in Cavite contained P6.8 billion worth of shabu. ADVERTISEMENTThe PDEA director also admitted that the swab test was not a “100 percent” indicator of the presence of an illegal drug. The BOC earlier seized 355 kilograms of shabu worth P4.3 billion from these lifters found inside an abandoned container at the MICP. READ: 1 ton of shabu worth P6.8B eludes PDEA, PNPP6.8-B ‘shabu’ smuggling: BOC men probedCriticized for his conclusionThe embattled PDEA chief was earlier criticized for concluding that P6.8 billion worth of shabu were found inside in the four magnetic lifters they discovered in a warehouse in General Mariano Alvarez, Cavite province on Aug. 9. “Shabu lang ang nawala (shabu was not found in the lifters in Cavite), pareho lahat (but it’s the same with the MICP lifters which were found with shabu),” he added.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer August 30, 2018 04:31 UTC