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SUBIC BAY FREEPORT: The government’s antismuggling
chief, Antonio Villar, over the weekend said they had found three
more bags of shabu (metham-phetamine hydrochloride) valued at around
P6 million a kilo at Subic Bay Freeport. He estimated that the haul
could fetch three times more in the illegal-drugs market.
With the recent find, the total
weight shabu discovered here rose to about 744 kilos valued at least
P15 billion.
According to Armand Arreza, the
administrator of Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority, the three bags
were seen tied to an anchor around 8:30 a.m. on Saturday.
“This is apparently part of the
same shipment that we seized last week,” Arreza told local media.
He pointed out that the shabu found had the same packaging as that
of the earlier haul confiscated from suspected drug runner Anton Ang.
He turned over the contraband to
the Presidential Anti-Smuggling Group office in the freeport.
Two Taiwanese fishing vessels
faced confiscation after they were abandoned by their crew. Another
Taiwanese boat, F/B Shun Fa Xing, was suspected to have carried last
week’s shipment. Its crew also abandoned it.
Villar said the captain of F/B
Shun Fa Xing identified as Jou Jonq Rong, according to the Taiwanese
government, was also facing several charges in Taiwan.
--Anthony Bayarong
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