(Eagle News) — The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency has filed criminal charges against former Customs Commissioner Nicanor Faeldon and several others over the P6.4-billion drug shipment that slipped through Customs via express lanes in May.
PDEA filed charges for violation of the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act, particularly for conspiracy to import illegal drugs and for protecting or coddling drug traffickers against Faeldon and others from the BOC —BOC directors Milo Maestrecampo and Neil Anthony Estrella; intelligence officers Joel Pinawin and Oliver Valiente; Manila International Container Port district collector Vincent Phillip Maronilla; Faeldon’s fiancée Jeline Maree Magsuci; BOC employees Alexandra Ventura, Randolph Cabansag, Dennis Maniego, Dennis Cabildo and John Edillor—in its complaint lodged before the Department of Justice on Monday.
PDEA also took to task the 12 for supposed violation of Section 3 of RA 3019 or the Anti-Graft and Corrupt Practices Act for “causing any undue injury to any party, including the government,” and for obstruction of justice.
For this, PDEA noted the “the gross inexcusable negligence, manifest partiality or bad faith of Commissioner Faeldon, Dir. Maestrecampo, Dir. Estrella, Pinawin, Valiente, Atty. Maronilla, Ventura, Cabansag, Maniego, Cabildo, and Edillor,” which they said made possible the importation of 602.279 kilograms of shabu into the country, and the “evasion of Chen Ju Long from being arrested and prosecuted.”
Charged with illegal drug importation charges were “importers” and “facilitators” Mark Taguba II, Teejay Marcellana, Eirene May Tatad, Emily Dee, Chen I-Min, Jhu Ming Jyun, Chen Ju Long, Chen Rong Juan, Manny Li, and Kenneth Dong.
Also charged were officers of Hong Fei Logistics Inc. which owned the warehouse where the shabu was seized.
These were Genelita Arayan, Dennis Nocom, Zhang Hong, Rene Palle, Richard Rebistual and Mary Rose dela Cruz.
Faeldon remains detained at the Office of the Sergeant at Arms of the Senate, where he surrendered after being cited in contempt for refusing to attend subsequent blue ribbon committee hearings into the shipment and into corruption in the BOC.
On Monday, he filed an ethics complaint against Senator Panfilo Lacson, who accused him of receiving a P100-million “pasalubong” as Customs chief.
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