JUST one week after Pres. Duterte delivered his sixth and final ‘SONA’ (State of the Nation Address) where he again affirmed his government’s continuing war against illegal drugs, the Drug Enforcement Group of the Philippine National Police (PDEG), jointly with the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) scored the government’s biggest accomplishment thus far, seizing more than 218 kilos of shabu worth more than P1.4 billion in three separate operations on Sunday, August 1, 2021, in Novaliches, Quezon City, Valenzuela City and, Balagtas, Bulacan.
PDEG director, P/BGen. Remus Medina, in a report to PNP Chief P/Gen. Guillermo Eleazar, said 4 Chinese nationals were also arrested while another one was killed in the course of these operations.
In Bgy. San Bartolome, Novaliches City, Medina said joint government anti-narcotics operatives first conducted a buy-bust operation along Magsaysay St., where they subsequently seized 127 kilos of shabu at a house being rented by the suspects. Medina placed the value of the confiscated drugs at P863.8 million.
Also arrested were Willie Lu Tan/Chen Bien, Antong Wong/Wang Zhongchun/Wang Min and, Chen Zin.
In Valenzuela City, Medina said another buy-bust operation in the vicinity of Gen. Luis St., Paso De Blas, past 11:30am resulted to the initial recovery of one kilo of shabu and the subsequent recovery of 15 more kilos of shabu worth P108.8 million.
In a message to Pinoy Expose’ Medina said they also arrested suspect ‘Joseph Dy,’ another Chinese national “and well-known distributor of illegal drugs within the National Capital Region (NCR) and other nearby regions.”
In the buy-bust operation in Bgy. Santol, Balagtas, Bulacan, Medina said suspect Wu Zishen, 50, engaged the government forces in a shootout resulting to his death.
Medina added that aside from a Colt .45 pistol the operating unit recovered from Wu, they also recovered another 75 kilos of shabu worth some P510 million.
“Base sa paunang imbestigasyon, sila ang nagpapakalat ng droga dito sa Metro Manila at mga kalapit na lalawigan. Patuloy ang ating imbestigasyon at intelligence gathering operations upang matukoy natin kung sino ang lider at utak ng sindikatong ito at para mahuli na din ang iba pa nilang kasama sa grupo,” Eleazar said in a separate statement.
He also lauded operatives of the PNP and the PDEA who conducted the series of anti-illegal drug operations.
The country’s top cop also pointed out, “This is a huge blow against the illegal drug trade dahil malaki ang posibilidad na ang sindikatong ito ang isa sa mga main suppliers ng iligal na droga dito sa Kamaynilaan at mga karatig-probinsiya.”
As all the recovered illegal drugs were wrapped in ‘Chinese tea bags,’ it is again the clearest indication that the ‘Sam Gor Drug Syndicate,’ currently the world’s biggest drug syndicate and the world’s biggest producer of ‘crystal meth’ (shabu) is now entrenched in the country.
The wrapping of shabu in Chinese tea bags has been the syndicate’s ‘trademark,’ according to an international investigation by the Interpol.
In the last several years, an increasing number of drug seizures in the Philippines were all wrapped in Chinese tea bags.
The syndicate continues to proliferate and expand because it is awash with cash to bribe anyone. The syndicate also “guarantees” the “reimbursement” of any drug seized or confiscated by the police in any of the country it operates.