ADVERTISEMENT“He has been hiding since the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee chaired by Sen. [Richard] Gordon investigated the magnetic lifter drug smuggling cases. I suppose that leaked information of his impending arrest made him hide all the more,” Guevarra told reporters. “The Office of the Prosecutor General is now doing the probe,” Guevarra told reporters in a message Friday. The case against the seven accused stemmed from the importation of multi-billion worth of shabu concealed in magnetic lifters. Reports said that the National Bureau of Investigation was supposed to begin a manhunt operation but the indictment was carried by the media a day before the operation.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer April 26, 2019 09:00 UTC