The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) on Wednesday gave the media a tour of its evidence room containing at least P10 billion worth of seized illegal drugs, amid allegations of drug recycling within the anti-narcotics agency.
In JP Soriano’s report on “24 Oras” on Wednesday, PDEA officials showed reporters its laboratory and evidence building where all drugs and drug paraphernalia intercepted in their buy-bust operations are stored and examined by their chemists.
Under PDEA rules and procedures as of March 2021, authorities may request the immediate destruction of the seized illegal drugs even without the filing of criminal charges against the suspects. PDEA Director-General Moro Virgilio Lazo reiterated there was no “drug recycling” within the agency, denying alleged claims by some informants that they were being paid by authorities using a portion of the intercepted illegal drugs.that informants would occasionally ask the agents for some of the seized drugs for that purpose, but that they would be turned down.
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