The Manila Times•22h ago
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Mindanao politician tagged in drug bust
A MINDANAO politician from an opposition party financed the chartered private plane that carried 521 kilograms of suspected shabu (crystal meth) worth P3.54 billion seized in Laos, the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) said on Thursday. PDEA spokesman Joseph Frederick Calulut, however, declined to disclose the

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