THE DEPARTMENT of Justice (DOJ) on Friday disclosed that convicted drug lord Herbert “Ampang” Colangco would testify against Sen. Leila de Lima in next week’s House inquiry into the drug trade at the national penitentiary.

Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre 2nd, in a radio interview, said Colangco would be among 12 high-profile inmates of the New Bilibid Prison set to expose de Lima for allegedly getting money from drug syndicates when she was Justice secretary in the previous Aquino administration.

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