FORMER POLICE Colonel Eduardo Acierto on Thursday accused former President Rodrigo Duterte of protecting suspected drug lords Michael Yang and Allan Lim.
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Monday, August 19, 2024
VP Sara husband, brother linked to shabu trade
FORMER BUREAU of Customs (BOC) intelligence officer Jimmy Guban on Friday implicated Vice President Sara Duterte’s husband, Manases Carpio, her brother and Davao City 1st District Rep. Paolo Duterte, and former presidential economic adviser Michael Yang to the smuggling of PHP11 billion worth of shabu at the Manila International Container Port (MICP) in 2018.
Friday, February 4, 2022
Blue Ribbon bares report on controversial Pharmally deals
THE SENATE Blue Ribbon Committee has formally endorsed the filing of multiple administrative and criminal charges against two former officials of the Procurement Service of the Department of Budget and Management (PS-DBM) for their role in an alleged anomalous deal entered with Pharmally Pharmaceutical Corporation in 2022.
Thursday, September 23, 2021
Senator looks into Pharmally connection of ex-Duterte’s adviser
SENATOR RISA Hontiveros revealed that Pharmally Pharmaceutical Corporation executive Mohit Dargani has worked as a Special Assistant to former Presidential Economic Adviser Michael Yang, a Davao City-based Chinese businessman.
Saturday, September 11, 2021
Senators question 'overpriced' Covid gear
SENATORS HAVE launched an investigation into how a Chinese national and ally of President Rodrigo Duterte was awarded a multi-million-dollar contract by the government to supply “overpriced” face masks and other medical equipment in the fight against the coronavirus.
Friday, March 29, 2019
Duterte not coddler of Chinese drug suspects – Spokesman Panelo
THE PALACE strongly denied damaging accusations by former police officer Eduardo Acierto against President Rodrigo Duterte that he is coddling or protecting two high-profile Chinese nationals, one of them his economic adviser, being accused as involved in the illegal drug trade in the country.
Presidential Spokesman Salvador Panelo made this reaction as Acierto claimed that Duterte has been photographed with Chinese businessman Michael Yang, who is Duterte’s adviser; and Allan Lim. "The President always accommodates anyone who wants to take picture with him. Kung iyon lang ang magiging basis niya, malabo iyon," Panelo said.
Acierto, Director for Administration of the Philippine National Police (PNP) Drug Enforcement Group, who was dismissed from the service after he was allegedly linked to drug smuggling, has accused Duterte and former PNP chief Ronald dela Rosa of trashing an intelligence report about Yang’s supposed link to illegal drugs and blocking further investigation.
He also claimed furnishing National Police Chief General Oscar Albayalde of an intelligence report on Yang. Albayalde denied the allegation. “First, since I assumed office as Chief PNP in April 2018, I do not remember having received any copy of an alleged report that identified presidential adviser Michael Yang as being involved in drug activities,” Albayalde said.
“I would like to categorically debunk allegations made by dismissed police Col. Eduardo Acierto that I failed to act accordingly to an intelligence report that he purportedly submitted when he was still in the service with the defunct Anti-Illegal Drugs Special Operations Task Force,” he added.
Panelo said Acierto's motive was to get back at Duterte for dismissing him from the service. “Obviously, the motive is - since he has been accused of involvement in drugs, he wants to get back, that’s why he is pointing fingers at whoever," he said.
Duterte has defended Yang and said the Chinese businessman has no connections or links with the illegal drug trade and he threw invectives at Acierto and called him son of a bitch during his public speeches recently. The President even asked the police and military why Acierto is still alive.
But Panelo said Duterte will never tolerate anyone involved in illegal drugs. "This President will not tolerate anyone regardless of the stature or relationship with him if he is involved in drugs. He will never allow it. He is against it," Panelo said.
Panelo said Duterte will not say anything without any basis as he defended Yang from Acierto's allegations. "Common sense will tell us that he (Yang) is not involved, according to the President, Ambassador Zhao slept in the house of Michael Yang. And we all know that the Chinese government is against illegal drugs, and the Ambassador will never associate himself with anyone involved in drugs," Panelo said.
"The fact alone that you are an Ambassador of China, and your government is against illegal drug industry, how can you be associating yourself with somebody you know to be involved in drugs? Obviously, talagang hindi siya involved. Bakit naman siya makikisama doon?” he asked.
Panelo said Duterte's trust and confidence in Yang will remain unless there is a proof of his involvement in illegal drugs. "There is an allegation and let the allegation be processed, investigated and then if there is a validation, then the Palace will make a move," he said. (PNA. With a report from Mindanao Examiner.)
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Presidential Spokesman Salvador Panelo made this reaction as Acierto claimed that Duterte has been photographed with Chinese businessman Michael Yang, who is Duterte’s adviser; and Allan Lim. "The President always accommodates anyone who wants to take picture with him. Kung iyon lang ang magiging basis niya, malabo iyon," Panelo said.
President Rodrigo Duterte with Chinese businessman Michael Yang.
Acierto, Director for Administration of the Philippine National Police (PNP) Drug Enforcement Group, who was dismissed from the service after he was allegedly linked to drug smuggling, has accused Duterte and former PNP chief Ronald dela Rosa of trashing an intelligence report about Yang’s supposed link to illegal drugs and blocking further investigation.
He also claimed furnishing National Police Chief General Oscar Albayalde of an intelligence report on Yang. Albayalde denied the allegation. “First, since I assumed office as Chief PNP in April 2018, I do not remember having received any copy of an alleged report that identified presidential adviser Michael Yang as being involved in drug activities,” Albayalde said.
“I would like to categorically debunk allegations made by dismissed police Col. Eduardo Acierto that I failed to act accordingly to an intelligence report that he purportedly submitted when he was still in the service with the defunct Anti-Illegal Drugs Special Operations Task Force,” he added.
Panelo said Acierto's motive was to get back at Duterte for dismissing him from the service. “Obviously, the motive is - since he has been accused of involvement in drugs, he wants to get back, that’s why he is pointing fingers at whoever," he said.
Duterte has defended Yang and said the Chinese businessman has no connections or links with the illegal drug trade and he threw invectives at Acierto and called him son of a bitch during his public speeches recently. The President even asked the police and military why Acierto is still alive.
But Panelo said Duterte will never tolerate anyone involved in illegal drugs. "This President will not tolerate anyone regardless of the stature or relationship with him if he is involved in drugs. He will never allow it. He is against it," Panelo said.
Panelo said Duterte will not say anything without any basis as he defended Yang from Acierto's allegations. "Common sense will tell us that he (Yang) is not involved, according to the President, Ambassador Zhao slept in the house of Michael Yang. And we all know that the Chinese government is against illegal drugs, and the Ambassador will never associate himself with anyone involved in drugs," Panelo said.
"The fact alone that you are an Ambassador of China, and your government is against illegal drug industry, how can you be associating yourself with somebody you know to be involved in drugs? Obviously, talagang hindi siya involved. Bakit naman siya makikisama doon?” he asked.
Panelo said Duterte's trust and confidence in Yang will remain unless there is a proof of his involvement in illegal drugs. "There is an allegation and let the allegation be processed, investigated and then if there is a validation, then the Palace will make a move," he said. (PNA. With a report from Mindanao Examiner.)
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Tuesday, October 9, 2018
Letters from Davao: The Red October by Jun Ledesma
THE WARNING OF the intelligence community about a spectre of an organized attempt to overthrow the government of President Rodrigo Duterte this October appears to be true and looming. From what we have seen so far, student activisms have become perceptible and coordinated in state and private colleges and universities. Across the Pacific in the opposite side of the globe, organized and well-funded street demonstrations are making noise denouncing Duterte. Expect Loida Nicolas-Lewis, to continue with her “resign Duterte resign” refrain to increase in crescendo.
Of course the school campuses had been infiltrated. Any contradicting claim is hogwash. The communist ideologues are masters in their art of persuasion and the fashion of joining the radical left has resurrected the First Quarter Storm , a period of civil unrest in the late 1970’s that was contributory to the declaration of Martial Law.
The current situation has all the symptoms of FQS only this time you have a cabal of political and religious terrorists and conniving with the left in a common agenda to oust Duterte. Loida-Lewis is alleged to be bankrolling demonstration to jettison Duterte and openly advocates to install Leni Robredo in his stead. Meanwhile a faction of Catholic Bishops headed by Socrates Villegas has raised the call for the President to step down.
The foreign-funded media outfits and personalities of course are not far behind. When the President took a brief respite with his family in Hong Kong and went shopping in Uniqlo, a budget shop, they took a snap shot at him and in an apparent snipe at denigrating the president and family described the scene as a shopping spree with the couple and daughter carrying bundles of money reminiscent of Imelda Marcos. In their stupidity, the paid hacks passed Uniqlo as a luxury shop.
If that was not foul enough Duterte’s inveterate critics, among them Rappler, attempted to put a wedge between the President and China. They knew that President Xi Jinping is scheduled to visit the Philippines in November which is a big event celebrating the friendly accord between the two countries highlighted by formal signing of loan agreements and grants that will kick off the Build, Build, Build program of the government.
Rappler creatively twisted the remarks of Duterte in one occasion where he described the relationship of China Ambassador Zhao Jinhua and Davao-based businessman Michael Yang as friendly. Rappler and Vera Files added additional condiments on their story branding Yang as a drug pusher. I know Yang, as a part-owner of DCLA, and as one who assertively presents himself as close to his penchants of circles of famous friends, but I do not think he will venture into drugs which could send him to the calaboose if Duterte gets wind of any link to illegal drugs. (Jun Ledesma)
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