Duterte protected suspected drug lords Yang, Lim, says ex-cop

ALLEGED PROTECTOR. Former Police Col. Eduardo Acierto accuses former President Rodrigo Duterte of defending suspected drug lords Michael Yang and Allan Lim in the course of the listening to of the Home Quad Committee on Thursday (Nov. 7, 2024).  (Screengrab by PNA)

MANILA – Former Police Colonel Eduardo Acierto on Thursday accused former President Rodrigo Duterte of defending suspected drug lords Michael Yang and Allan Lim.

In the course of the listening to of the Home Quad Committee, Acierto submitted an intelligence report in 2017 detailing Yang and Lim’s involvement within the unlawful drug commerce, however this was ignored by high-ranking officers.

Yang, a former financial adviser to Duterte, and Lim, often known as Lin Weixiong, had been reportedly “shut associates” of the previous president, based on Acierto.

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Acierto alleged he and his workforce confronted retaliation, citing the 2019 abduction of Police Captain Lito Perote and the 2021 killing of MSgt. Gerry Liwanag.

“Sigurado po ako dahil sa mga nangyari sa akin at nangyari sa mga kasamahan ko ay very apparent po na siya yung nag-protect, prinotektahan niya si Michael Yang at si Allan Lim,” Acierto stated.

(I’m positive due to what occurred to me and what occurred to my subordinates, it is rather apparent that he [Duterte] was the one who protected…he protected Michael Yang and Allan Lim.)

In an intelligence report compiled by Acierto’s workforce, Yang allegedly operated drug labs in Mindanao because the early 2000s, together with a Davao Metropolis facility raided in 2004, the place authorities seized over 100 kilos of shabu valued at greater than P300 million.

Based mostly on the drug matrix ready by Acierto’s workforce, Yang can also be linked to the Johnson Chua drug syndicate led by Johnson Co, a determine purportedly based mostly in China.

Acierto claimed that Yang and Lim facilitated the entry of unlawful medicine with alleged help from officers within the Bureau of Customs.

Lim was stated to be behind a Cavite drug laboratory raided by the Philippine Drug Enforcement Company (PDEA) in July 2018, which yielded P10.4 billion in unlawful medicine and gear.

Acierto stated Lim was arrested in the course of the operation however was later launched as a consequence of technicalities.

The previous officer additional alleged that Yang offered delivery paperwork for the entry of unlawful medicine recovered in a Cagayan de Oro warehouse, which was operated by a sure Allan Sy, in 2005.

Acierto submitted the report back to then Philippine Nationwide Police (PNP) chief, now Senator Ronald “Bato” Dela Rosa, former PDEA Director Aaron Aquino, and former Police Deputy Director Basic Camilo Cascolan.

He additionally despatched them to Dela Rosa’s successor, former PNP chief Oscar Albayalde, however claimed that no motion was taken.

“Wala silang ginawa, pinabayaan nila ang report (They didn’t do something. They ignored the report).,” Acierto stated. “Hanggang sa umabot na hindi ma-dispute ang report, ako at ang workforce ko ang siniraan (Till it reached a degree the place my report can’t be disputed, my workforce and I suffered slander).”

Acierto stated he felt betrayed, as quickly after submitting the report, he was accused by Duterte of being concerned in unlawful medicine.

In October 2018, Duterte publicly named Acierto as one of many police officers allegedly linked to unlawful medicine.

Acierto was later implicated within the smuggling of P11 billion price of medicine hid in magnetic lifters, which had been discovered on the Manila Worldwide Container Port and in a warehouse in Cavite in 2018. He has been in hiding since 2019. (PNA)

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