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              Pati si Barbers? 
               
                
            
            Lawrence Wang is a Hongkong or Macau resident who 
              was listed by the Interpol, US-DEA and the Hong Kong Royal Police 
              way back in 1993. He settled in Manila and established a night spot,formerly 
              named "La Vogue", along U.N. Ave. which is a block away from WPD's 
              Police Station 5 then headed by Barbers and years later occupied 
              by Maganto. These 2 Manila police officers befriended Mr. Wang and 
              were seen frequenting the place on a weekly basis as the club's 
              protectors. Several personalities from the media and the police 
              could attest to this statement. 
             As soon as Pres. Ramos installed Mr Barbers as DILG 
              Sec.,the latter formed his own group of Manila policemen to man 
              his PARAC to undertake anti-criminality operations. 
             In May 1996, his PARAC operatives then headed by 
              Maj.Margallo arrested his friend-kumpadre, Mr. Lawrence Wang, 
              in a parking lot near his establishment along U.N. Ave. and confiscated 
              36 kilograms of "shabu" and a firearm. The case was filed but was 
              eventually dismissed by the court for some technicalities. Barbers' 
              police witnesses who testified in the court erred in their testimonies. 
              The police officers concerned intentionally committed errors while 
              being cross-examined and contradicted their own sworn statements 
              which we may call in the police lingo as "binutasan ang kaso". 
              Money must have caused the intentional dismissal of the case since 
              Mr Lawrence Wang is the biggest supplier of "shabu" in South East 
              Asia and America. Wang thereafter was allowed to leave the country 
              at the dismay of US-DEA and other international police counterparts 
              stationed in Manila. Barber's policemen were never subjected to 
              any investigation or punished after the said incident. President 
              Fidel Ramos was so furious and ordered the manhunt for Wang who 
              until now supplies the country with shabu from China. After that, 
              Ramos decided not to inform Barbers about the planned raid on another 
              suspected druglord, Alfredo Tiongco. 
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             Solon reveals shabu lab in Glorias hometown 
              By Gerry Baldo 
              Tuesday, 07 08, 2003  
            An investigation on the alleged presence of a huge 
              shabu factory in President Arroyo's hometown of Lubao, 
              Pampanga, was sought yesterday on reports that a culvert pipe factory 
              in the town is being used as a front for the manufacture of methamphetamine 
              hydrochloride, shabu or poor man's cocaine. 
            According to Minority Leader Carlos Padilla, the 
              factory, which is reportedly owned by Alfredo Tiongco, is located 
              in a heavily guarded compound in San Jose Gumi in Lubao. 
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              ONG'S DRUG PARTNER, 
              - SHANGHAI CHUA - 
              
            One of the houses that jueteng payola built 
              in Nueva Ecija. Guess who the owner is?  
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             How Much is the President Worth? 
              PCIJ Research 
              Since Pres. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo entered the political scene 
              as a Senator in 1992, her net worth increased more than tenfold 
              from P6.7 Million to P72 Million in 2002. (more) 
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              "The empress strikes again The empress of Crame, 
              that is. Without enough gawgaw yet on her face, Rosebud charges 
              to the Western Police District station and bawls out Pete Bulaong's 
              policemen, for daring to apprehend her nephew, a young thug called 
              Blessius Ong. Blessed by the empress of Crame, he drives around 
              without a driver's license, enters a one-way street in busy Malate, 
              then drives like crazy, away from a mobile patrol car whose cops 
              naturally gave him chase for such bizarre conduct. 
             "Rosebud, television cameras in tow, sashays into 
              the police station and gives the silent cops a piece of her dubious 
              mind. Sila pa ang masama! Sila pa ang may kasalanan! Any right-thinking 
              cop would have had her arrested on the spot, and booked her for 
              disturbance of the peace and interfering in police duties. But no. 
              Tamene na lang sila. They trembled before the unholy presence of 
              the empress of Crame. 
              "Pulis kotong na, pulis patola pa. Kawawa talaga 
              tayo." 
              Lito 
              Banayo 
              Tribune 
              27 June 2003 
              
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             NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH 
            
            Ang 
              finally Wycoco... 
              Sack Wycoco, urge NBI 
              exec, agents 
              By PRIAM NEPOMUCENO 
              Malaya 
              July 15, 2003 
            
                
            
            A group of NBI agents and employees led by NBI Deputy 
              Director Samuel Ong yesterday started a series of protest actions 
              aimed at getting Reynaldo Wycoco dismissed as NBI chief. 
            "The only real issue here is the jueteng payola. 
              For the first time in the history of the NBI, an NBI director has 
              been denounced for receiving monthly jueteng payola," said 
              Ong, one of three deputy directors re-assigned by Wycoco after Malaya 
              came out with a report on Wycoco's alleged receipt of P5 million 
              a month from jueteng 
              operations. 
            "And for the first time in the history of the 
              NBI a mass protest been made by the NBI people demanding for the 
              ouster of their director. The good name and image of the NBI has 
              been besmirched by this jueteng payola allegation," Ong said. 
             
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             CHINA 
              COUNTRY BRIEF 
              MARCH 2002 
               
              
             
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            Chinese Ephedra (Ephedra equisitina), also known 
              as desert herb or Ma Huang, is a herb from which ephedrine is extracted. 
              For at least 5,000 years, ephedrine has been used in Chinese medicine 
              to relieve asthma, allergies, and sinus problems. 
            Ephedrine is at present being utilized by drug syndicates 
              as an ingredient in the production of the illegal drug, "shabu." 
             
             
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            Herman Tiu Laurel 
              Tribune 
              Friday, 06 27, 2003  
             
            The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) sends 
              out its signals on the anti-drug campaign of Arroyo and Barbers, 
              and they aren't looking good. It seems that Lacson instead is being 
              cast in a better light. It all appears to be the problem with the 
              Wang thing. Lawrence Wang, drug kingpin who was sprung from jail 
              from beneath the nose of his "friend" and then Department of Interior 
              and Local Government Secretary Robert Barbers, is getting the senator 
              and aspiring anti-drugs czar into a tangle. Though long gone from 
              the reach of local law enforcers, the story of police payoffs and 
              bribery comes back to drive Barbers weng-weng (to go crazy, in local 
              street language). 
             The last laugh now seems to be Lacson's, specially 
              after that dinner invitation from foreign police attachés. The dinner 
              included the US DEA representatives in the country. Being in their 
              very sensitive posts make these anti-drugs diplomatic corps members 
              absolutely careful and being invited to their tete-a-tete is certainly 
              a boost. This news surfaced the day after my column dissecting the 
              Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde character of Anglo-US anti-drugs policy, 
              with Lacson working with the genuine anti-drugs faction like the 
              DEA and his detractors actually networks of the drugs promoting 
              covert faction. 
              
             Barbers' discomfiture increases as more facts surface 
              about his chummy relations with the escaped drugs kingpin Lawrence 
              Wang, as the Tribune news reports show. Wang's friend, a certain 
              "Michael," was interviewed over dzEC radio giving the gory details 
              to the close relations with Lawrence Wang of Barbers and the "four 
              aces" Arroyo has floated to lead her P1-billion anti-drugs campaign. 
              More gory details of Roxas Boulevard Legaspi Tower condominiums, 
              money and other properties were given, all in exchange for the liberty 
              of the drugs kingpin that did eventually happen. 
              Lacson, on the other hand, can be very happy that 
              good guy Dr. Jekyll in the US anti-drugs policy of the DEA acknowledged 
              the "active role" Lacson provided in the anti-drugs campaign when 
              he was still with the Philippine National Police. Affirmation of 
              Lacson's role was made in remarks of outgoing DEA country attaché, 
              Jeffrey Wendling, at his despedida hosted by United States Ambassador 
              Ricciardone. Meanwhile, we have confirmation from our PCSO sources 
              that Arroyo will be committing graft in getting P1 billion from 
              the PCSO for her anti-drugs campaign while no such fund is available. 
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            "Tulfo, Arrogant Member of the Dirty 
            Tricks Department of Jose Pidal" 
             Parañaque police said Tulfo’s bodyguards disarmed four policemen 
              who accosted them for violating the Metro Manila Development Authority’s 
              Unified Vehicular Volume Reduction Program or color coding scheme 
              at the Sucat interchange in Parañaque last April 1, 2003.(Full 
              Story) 
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