During lawmakers’ interpellation of his testimony, Sebastian denied one by one the allegations of other inmates pointing to him as the one who ordered gang leaders to raise campaign funds for De Lima when the latter was justice secretary. I also didn’t order them to sell shabu for the campaign funds of De Lima),” Sebastian said. Sebastian said he gave the payola for De Lima to the latter’s former aide Jonel Sanchez, who Sebastian alleged had a relationship with De Lima. Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre II earlier said De Lima pulled out the Bilibid 19 so that Sebastian may monopolize the drug trade. Sebastian also said he does not know any Ronnie Dayan, contradicting other inmates’ testimony that it was Dayan, De Lima’s former driver, who collected payola for De Lima.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer October 10, 2016 06:26 UTC