Drug syndicates have penetrated govt – Customs chief

 Bureau of Customs Commissioner Isidro Lapeña holds a drug matrix during a press conference at the Bureau of Customs in Port Area, Manila on Tuesday, October 23, 2018. PHOTO BY DANTE DIOSINA JR.

DRUG syndicates have penetrated the highest echelons of the government, including the Bureau of Customs, and the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA), according to Customs Commissioner Isidro Lapeña.

“It is a fact that the drug syndicates have penetrated the government. They exist in the Bureau of Customs, they exist in PDEA, and they exist in other branches of government,” Lapeña said on Tuesday.

Lapeña said proof was the drug matrix recently shown by President Rodrigo Duterte himself.

Lapeña said the well-orchestrated media attacks against the BOC was funded by syndicates to divert the attention away from them.

“The issue on X-rays, and all these noises are smokes and mirrors — technicalities being used to divert the public away from the main issue. We should refocus,” Lapeña stressed. WILLIAM B.DEPASUPIL

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