ANTI-crime advocates on Saturday expressed outrage over the travel clearance issued to Sen. Leila de Lima, claiming the lawmaker, who is accused of pocketing money from drug syndicates, could seek asylum to escape prosecution.

Dante Jimenez, founding chairman of the Volunteers Against Crime and Corruption (VACC), said he would ask President Rodrigo Duterte to block de Lima’s plan to travel to the United States and Germany this week.

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