Reynaldo de Guzman

It is clear that agencies responsible for investigating corruption, and ensuring the custody and destruction of seized drugs, are amazingly inept. Sen. Franklin Drilon showed that the “chain of custody” procedure was a shambles. Seized drugs were not properly inventorized in a timely manner and were not destroyed within 24 hours, as the law dictated. Seized drugs were not inventoried in a timely manner and were not destroyed within 24 hours, as the law dictated. A proportion of the impounded drugs simply went missing. “Eaten by rats of the two-legged variety,” so the joke ran. Drilon was not laughing. He admonished the performances of the BoC, the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA), and the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI), as being utterly lamentable and nothing less than a disgrace.

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