Former Justice Secretary and now Senator Leila De Lima faces another challenge for her alleged involvement in the proliferation of illegal drug trade inside the New Bilibid Prison (NBP).
Senator De Lima, along with seven others were charged Tuesday, October 11 with a complaint for illegal drug trading and trafficking., violations of the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act.
Complainant Volunteers Against Crime and Corruption, through its president Dante Jimenez, filed before the Department of Justice (DOJ) a complaint for the "sale, trading, administration, dispensation, delivery, distribution and transportation of dangerous drugs and/or controlled precursors and essential chemicals," punishable under section 5 of the law; and "attempt or conspiracy in the "sale, trading, administration,dispensation, delivery, distribution and transportation of any dangerous drug and/or controlled precursor and essential chemical," punishable under section 26.
Among the complaint names as Senator De Lima's co-respondents were:
- Francisco Baraan III, a DOJ undersecretary who supervised the Bureau of Corrections (BuCor);
- Franklin Jesus Bucayu, former BuCor Director;
- Ronnie Palisoc Dayan, De Lima's former driver-bodyguard and her alleged ex-lover;
- Jaybee Sebastian, a high-profile NBP inmate serving two life terms for kidnapping for ransom and carjacking;
- Joenel Sanchez, a member of the Presidential Security Group (PSG) formerly detailed to De Lima; and
- Jose Adrian Dera aka Jad De Vera, reportedly a nephew of De Lima and also served as one of her guards; and
- Col. Wilfredo Ely, a former staff of Bucayu.
Attached to the complaint as annexes were the testimonies of the following congressional inquiry witnesses:
-Former Police Chief Inspector Rodolfo Magleo (inmate);
- Herbert Colanggo (inmate);
- Jojo Baligad (inmate);
- Noel Martinez (inmate);
- Engelberto Durano (inmate);
- Joel Capones (inmate);
- German Agojo (inmate);
- Hans Anton Tan (inmate);
- Froilan Trestiza (inmate);
- Jaime Patcho (inmate);
- Rafael Ragos (National Bureau of Investigation Deputy Director and former BuCor OIC)
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