{"id":128978,"date":"2017-11-07T02:03:12","date_gmt":"2017-11-07T07:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=128978"},"modified":"2017-11-07T02:03:12","modified_gmt":"2017-11-07T07:03:12","slug":"ombudsman-forms-panel-to-probe-p6-4-shabu-shipment-in-boc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/11\/07\/ombudsman-forms-panel-to-probe-p6-4-shabu-shipment-in-boc\/","title":{"rendered":"Ombudsman forms panel to probe P6.4 \u2018shabu\u2019 shipment in BOC"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_56696\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-56696\" style=\"width: 4608px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/FvfOmbudsman0222_171.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-56696\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/FvfOmbudsman0222_171.jpg\" alt=\"Central Office of the Ombudsman Building, Agham Road, North Triangle Diliman, Quezon City (Photo: Wikipedia\/Judgefloro)\" width=\"4608\" height=\"3456\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/FvfOmbudsman0222_171.jpg 4608w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/FvfOmbudsman0222_171-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/FvfOmbudsman0222_171-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 4608px) 100vw, 4608px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-56696\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Central Office of the Ombudsman Building, Agham Road, North Triangle Diliman, Quezon City<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ombudsman_of_the_Philippines\">(Photo: Wikipedia\/Judgefloro)<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Office of the Ombudsman on Tuesday has formed a fact-finding panel that will investigate the alleged irregularities in the Bureau of Customs (BOC) in connection with the smuggling of P6.4 billion worth of methamphetamine hydrochloride or shabu from China in May.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Office of the Ombudsman has created a panel to conduct a fact-finding investigation into alleged anomalies in the release of P6.4 billion worth of Methamphetamine or &#8216;shabu,&#8217; through the green lane of the Bureau of Customs,&#8221; the anti-graft office said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The release was allegedly facilitated by public officials who were identified as members of the &#8216;Davao Group&#8217; by Customs broker Mark Ruben Taguba II,&#8221; it added.<\/p>\n<p>Ombudsman Conchita Carpio Morales issued Office Order No. 765 \u201ccreating a special panel of fact-finding investigators to look into the controversial cargo from China that slipped past the Bureau of Customs (BOC).\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The office said that the independent probe conforms to President Rodrigo Duterte\u2019s statement last October 31 that he leaves the investigation to the independent agencies to find out whether his son, Vice Mayor Paolo Duterte, and son-in-law, Manases\u00a0Carpio, were involved in the supposed &#8216;Davao Group.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Who would believe me if I investigate my son and my son-in-law? You, can you investigate your mother or father?\u00a0I leave it to the independent agencies,&#8221; Duterte said.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Customs fixer Mark Taguba, in a Senate hearing,\u00a0claimed\u00a0that the Davao group was involved with the peculiarities within the BOC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Office of the Ombudsman on Tuesday has formed a fact-finding panel that will investigate the alleged irregularities in the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":56696,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,1145,95],"tags":[31580,4763,13182,21022],"class_list":["post-128978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-headline","category-news-ph","tag-fact-finding-panel","tag-office-of-the-ombudsman","tag-ombudsman-conchita-carpio-morales","tag-php6-4-billion-worth-of-shabu-shipment","mauthors-michealina-vallarta-david","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128978\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}