{"id":88116,"date":"2017-02-06T00:25:56","date_gmt":"2017-02-06T05:25:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=88116"},"modified":"2017-02-06T00:25:56","modified_gmt":"2017-02-06T05:25:56","slug":"pdea-7-exec-confirms-president-dutertes-statement-on-korean-mafia-in-cebu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/02\/06\/pdea-7-exec-confirms-president-dutertes-statement-on-korean-mafia-in-cebu\/","title":{"rendered":"PDEA 7 exec confirms President Duterte\u2019s statement on Korean mafia in Cebu"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_87089\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-87089\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/011917_KARL4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-87089\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/011917_KARL4.jpg\" alt=\"An official of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) 7 has confirmed President Rodrigo Duterte\u2019s statement Saturday night in Davao City that a Korean mafia is operating an illegal drug trade and a prostitution ring in Cebu. (Photo: Karlo Norman Alonzo\/ Presidential Photo)\" width=\"150\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-87089\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">An official of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) 7 has confirmed President Rodrigo Duterte\u2019s statement Saturday night in Davao City that a Korean mafia is operating an illegal drug trade and a prostitution ring in Cebu. (Photo: Karlo Norman Alonzo\/ Presidential Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>CEBU CITY \u2013An official of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) 7 has confirmed President Rodrigo Duterte\u2019s statement Saturday night in Davao City that a Korean mafia is operating an illegal drug trade and a prostitution ring in Cebu.<\/p>\n<p>PDEA 7 Director Yogi Filemon Ruiz said Monday he knew about this information since 2009, when he was still the deputy director.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe caught a Korean national last September who posed as a tourist guide and was also found to be selling drugs among his clients. That is an indicator that there is a syndicate moving underground in Cebu City,\u201d Ruiz said.<\/p>\n<p>Ruiz said PDEA 7 operatives arrested Kim See Woong, 47, alias Kuma, by virtue of an arrest warrant last September 17, 2016 for failing to attend his court hearings.<\/p>\n<p>Kim was arrested last January 9, 2011 for possession of illegal drugs but was able to post bail.<\/p>\n<p>But Kim did not attend his court hearings, so a bench warrant was issued in April 2015 for his arrest.<\/p>\n<p>Kim had a working visa and stayed in Barangay Maribago, Lapu-Lapu City for 12 years before he was caught last year for offering shabu to his clients.<\/p>\n<p>Ruiz said he believed the supply of shabu in South Korea came from Cebu, which is worth USD30,000 to 40,000 per kilo.<\/p>\n<p>When it arrives in Korea, Ruiz said the price of shabu would rise up to USD100,000 to 130,000.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are the exporter, not the importer. Drugs are expensive there because their law enforcers are effective, which made it hard for the syndicate,\u201d Ruiz added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CEBU CITY \u2013An official of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) 7 has confirmed President Rodrigo Duterte\u2019s statement Saturday night &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":87089,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[14728,6095],"class_list":["post-88116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-korean-mafia","tag-pdea","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88116","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=88116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88116\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}