{"id":81310,"date":"2016-09-21T03:49:20","date_gmt":"2016-09-21T07:49:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=81310"},"modified":"2025-01-08T03:11:12","modified_gmt":"2025-01-08T08:11:12","slug":"de-lima-receives-php3-m-month-since-2013-colanggo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2016\/09\/21\/de-lima-receives-php3-m-month-since-2013-colanggo\/","title":{"rendered":"De Lima receives PHP3-M a month since 2013 \u2013 Colanggo"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_81311\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-81311\" style=\"width: 2250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/160920170407.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-81311\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/160920170407.jpg\" alt=\"Convicted drug lord Herbert Colangco (4th from left) gestures with both hands to stress a point in his testimony against Senator Leila de Lima during the hearing of the House of Representatives Justice Committee on the proliferation of drug trade inside the New Bilibid Prison on Tuesday (Sept. 20, 2016). He claimed that De Lima received PHP3 million a month since October 2013 to allow illegal transactions inside the NBP. (Photo: Oliver Marquez\/PNA) \" width=\"2250\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/160920170407.jpg 2250w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/160920170407-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/160920170407-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/160920170407-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2250px) 100vw, 2250px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-81311\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Convicted drug lord Herbert Colanggo (4th from left) gestures with both hands to stress a point in his testimony against Senator Leila de Lima during the hearing of the House of Representatives Justice Committee on the proliferation of drug trade inside the New Bilibid Prison on Tuesday (Sept. 20, 2016). He claimed that De Lima received PHP3 million a month since October 2013 to allow illegal transactions inside the NBP. (Photo: Oliver Marquez\/PNA)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA \u2013 Former Justice Secretary and now Senator Leila De Lima received PHP3 million a month since October 2013 to allow illegal transactions inside the New Bilibid Prison (NBP), robbery convict Herbert Colanggo said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>During the House of Representatives justice committee\u2019s inquiry into the illegal drug trade inside the NBP, Colanggo detailed that the hefty sum given to De Lima monthly served as \u201cPR Payola\u201d in exchange for the smuggling of contraband items inside the national penitentiary.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy cialis professional online <a href=\"http:\/\/edlaboratories.com\/tour\/edl-glio\/swf\/cialis-professional.html\">http:\/\/edlaboratories.com\/tour\/edl-glio\/swf\/cialis-professional.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>In his case, Colanggo was permitted to bring truckloads of equipment as well as boxes of beer inside the NBP. He sold each case of beer for PHP10,000 pesos, which originally costs at PHP700.<\/p>\n<p>Colanggo said he was initially asked by fellow convict Jaybee Sebastian to engage into drug trade inside the NBP, but the former declined because of trust issues.<\/p>\n<p>He was then approached by Joenel Sanchez, De Lima\u2019s security aide, two weeks to re-establish Sebastian\u2019s offer to support the plans of De Lima\u2019s senatorial bid in the 2016 elections.<\/p>\n<p>Colanggo\u2019s gang accepted Sanchez\u2019 offer and became involved in selling 10 kilos of methamphetamine hyrdrochloride, or \u201cshabu\u201d every month until October 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Sanchez approached Colanggo again to swindle drug lords in the NBP by collecting 30 to 50 kilos of illegal drugs without payment, but the latter refused, fearing that he might be at a disadvantage once De Lima loses power.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy strattera online <a href=\"http:\/\/edlaboratories.com\/tour\/edl-glio\/swf\/strattera.html\">http:\/\/edlaboratories.com\/tour\/edl-glio\/swf\/strattera.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Colanggo said his refusal led to his transfer to the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) as De Lima led the raid at the Maximum Security Compound in December 2014.<\/p>\n<p>While he personally pleaded to De Lima to revoke the transfer in exchange of agreeing with Sanchez\u2019 earlier request, he remained detained at the NBI for 8 months.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy flomax online <a href=\"http:\/\/edlaboratories.com\/tour\/edl-glio\/swf\/flomax.html\">http:\/\/edlaboratories.com\/tour\/edl-glio\/swf\/flomax.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>The Bilibid inmate\u2019s surname had been mistaken as \u201cColangco\u201d in various media reports, but his signed affidavit revealed that the real spelling is Colanggo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA \u2013 Former Justice Secretary and now Senator Leila De Lima received PHP3 million a month since October 2013 to &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":81311,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,1145,16,95],"tags":[12274,6175,2407],"class_list":["post-81310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-headline","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-colanggo","tag-de-lima","tag-leila-de-lima","mauthors-filane-mikee-cervantes","mauthors-philippines-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81310","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=81310"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":280612,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81310\/revisions\/280612"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}