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OLONGAPO City: Joint operatives of the Presidential Anti-Smuggling
Group-Task Force Subic (PASG-TFS) and the Philippine Drug
Enforcement Agency (PDEA) finally got the go-signal to search the
house of Anthony Ang Wednesday but only found imported liquor,
cigarettes and ukay-ukay.
The house of Ang located at #50 Davidson Street,
Barangay West Bajac Bajac was being guarded by elements of PASG-TFS
and the Olongapo City police since Tuesday last week after Subic Bay
Metropolitan Authority (SBMA) and PASG discovered boxes of shabu
estimated at 700 kilos with a street value of P15 billion.
PDEA and PASG entered the house of Ang at around
9:30 a.m. Wednesday and finished the search at around 10:30 a.m.
“As of now we found only some documents and
medicine that will still be subject to examination,” PSSupt.
Benjamin Magalong, PDEA regional director, told The Times.
He said Judge Raymund Viray of Regional Trail
Court Branch 75 issued the search warrant.
PASG-TFS Deputy Director Atty. Edmundo Arugay
said that they were just there for support since the operation was
headed by PDEA.
Magalong added that they are also considering
filing a search warrant for Ang’s office at Hualong, located
inside Subic Bay Freeport, and his spa and fitness gym in one of the
hotels also inside the Freeport.
In a joint press conference late Tuesday by SBMA,
PASG-TFS and PDEA, it was announced that the latter would be setting
up an office at the Freeport to help monitor shipment of illegal
drugs.
Magalong, said that SBMA, through Administrator
Armand Arreza, expressed their willingness and pledged their
help in setting up the said office inside the Freeport.
Arugay also explained that they have yet to turn
over the illegal drugs to PDEA.
He added that they (PDEA) have no worries as to
the haul since they think Subic is one of the most secured areas for
the said contrabands.
-- Anthony Bayarong
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