(Eagle News) — The Senate ordered the arrest of Richard Tan and Manny Li on Wednesday, after the blue ribbon committee held them in contempt for “testifying falsely and evasively” in a hearing hours before on the P6.4-billion drug shipment.
It was Senate President Aquilino Pimentel who approved the arrest order issued by blue ribbon committee chair Senator Richard Gordon, who was among those who grilled the two individuals believed behind the contraband that entered the country via the Bureau of Customs’ express lanes.
Tan owns Hong Fei Logistics, whose warehouse housed the 605-kilogram shabu shipment after it went through the Customs lanes on May 24.
Li was believed to have brokered the delivery of the illegal shipment.
“For testifying falsely and evasively before the committee on Aug. 9, and thereby delaying, impeding and obstructing the inquiry…the committee hereby cites (Li and Tan) in contempt and (orders them) arrested and detained at the Office of the Sergeant at Arms until such time that (they) gives (their) true testimony, or otherwise purge (themselves) of that contempt,” the order read.