{"id":189295,"date":"2018-11-12T05:05:39","date_gmt":"2018-11-12T10:05:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=189295"},"modified":"2018-11-12T05:05:39","modified_gmt":"2018-11-12T10:05:39","slug":"solon-absolves-lapena-multi-billion-shabu-smuggling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/11\/12\/solon-absolves-lapena-multi-billion-shabu-smuggling\/","title":{"rendered":"Solon \u2018absolves\u2019 Lape\u00f1a in multi-billion shabu smuggling"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_189296\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-189296\" style=\"width: 660px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Robert_Ace_Barbers_at_a_press_briefing.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-189296 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Robert_Ace_Barbers_at_a_press_briefing.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"810\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Robert_Ace_Barbers_at_a_press_briefing.jpg 660w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Robert_Ace_Barbers_at_a_press_briefing-244x300.jpg 244w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-189296\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE: \u201c ASEAN VS DRUG MENACE. Rep. Robert Ace Barbers, chairman of the House Committee on Dangerous Drugs, lauds President Rodrigo Duterte\u2019s strong political will in combating the illegal drug problem. Barbers held a press briefing on the eve of the 13th Meeting of the ASEAN Inter-Parliamentary Assembly (AIPA) Fact-Finding Committee (AIFOCOM) to Combat the Drug Menace. According to Barbers, the AIFOCOM meet will allow member-countries to exchange best practices and strengthen cooperation in addressing the drug menace. \u201d (Photo: By Press and Public Affairs Bureau, House of Representatives of the Philippines\/Wikimedia commons, Public Domain)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; The chairman of the House committee on dangerous drugs on Monday said former Bureau of Customs (BOC) commissioner Isidro Lape\u00f1a has no accountability for the entry of multibillion-peso shabu shipments into the country.<\/p>\n<p>In a press conference, Surigao del Norte Rep. Robert Ace Barbers said even when command responsibility is considered in the alleged PHP11-billion smuggled shabu that slipped past the BOC, Lape\u00f1a should not face any serious issues of accountability.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>Wala akong nakikitang kinalaman si<\/em>\u00a0Commissioner Lape\u00f1a\u00a0<em>dyan sa pagpapalusot ng mga<\/em>\u00a0shipments\u00a0<em>o<\/em>\u00a0illegal\u00a0<em>na<\/em>\u00a0shipments\u00a0<em>o kargamentong yan<\/em>\u00a0(I don\u2019t see any involvement of Commissioner Lape\u00f1a in letting these illegal shipments slip past [Customs]),&#8221; Barbers said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, if that (command responsibility) would be considered, I don\u2019t think it would apply in a criminal situation such as smuggling of illegal drugs, then\u00a0<em>sa tingin ko walang ganung kabigat na<\/em>\u00a0accountability si Commissioner Lape\u00f1a (in my view, Commissioner Lape\u00f1a has no serious accountability),\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Barbers said his committee will continue its inquiry into the entry of billions of pesos&#8217; worth of shabu into the country in magnetic lifters either this week or next week.<\/p>\n<p>He also noted that subpoenas will be issued against sacked Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) deputy chief Ismael Fajardo and dismissed Senior Supt. Eduardo Acierto, both of whom were implicated in illegal drug activities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; The chairman of the House committee on dangerous drugs on Monday said former Bureau of Customs (BOC) commissioner Isidro &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":189296,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-filane-mikee-cervantes","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189295","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189295\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}