A former village official tagged as a “drug queen” by the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency fled the country three days before the Senate gave the go signal to make public the names of police officers or “ninja cops” allegedly involved in the recycling of seized drugs, the Bureau of Immigration (BI) said on Wednesday.

BI spokesman Dana Sandoval said Guia Gomez Castro left the country on September 21. She explained that immigration officers at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport allowed Castro to leave because “she has no derogatory records.”

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