FORMER Customs Commissioner Nicanor Faeldon will be detained “indefinitely” at the Senate after he refused to appear before the hearing of the blue ribbon committee on the P6.4 billion “shabu” shipment, according to its chairman, Sen. Richard Gordon.

“He was humble and courteous and he told me that that is his decision,” Gordon told reporters after talking to Faeldon who voluntarily turned himself over to the Senate sergeant-at-arms (OSAA) after he was cited in contempt for refusing to attend the blue ribbon proceedings twice.

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