SOME members of the Senate Blue Ribbon committee suspect that there could have been other shipments of illegal drugs from China that breezed through the green lane of the Bureau of Customs (BOC) aside from the more than 600 kilos of shabu (methamphetamine hydrochloride) seized by Customs agents in May.

At the hearing of the Senate blue ribbon committee on the recent seizure of the P6.4 billion worth of shabu in Valenzuela City, Sen. Panfilo Lacson quizzed officials of the BOC why they did not pursue the other three shipments that arrived together with the merchandise that contained the illegal substance.

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