THE National Bureau of Investigation (NBI), in coordination with the Presidential Anti-Corruption Commission (PACC), announced the arrest of two Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) employees for graft, plunder and extortion.

“It’s easier to arrest and do an operation against organized criminals ... to arrest a government official is very hard to do,” said NBI Deputy Director Ferdinand Lavin in a press conference on Friday.

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