MANILA, Philippines—The Dangerous Drugs Board would ask the US Drug Enforcement Agency to trace the international supplier of Ecstasy pills of the "Alabang Boys" who allegedly made orders via the Internet, said the board’s chair Vicente Sotto III on Wednesday.

"We've found out from the laptops seized from the Alabang Boys that they've made orders for Ecstasy on the Internet,'' said Sotto in a phone interview.

The supplier was based abroad, the deals were consummated, and the orders were mailed to Manila, he said, but declined to disclose other details.

Since sharing of intelligence information is a key area of cooperation, the DDB would request the DEA to trace the Ecstasy supplier of the three young wealthy men who are facing a drug case, Sotto said.

"We should put a stop to this," he said on the phone.

The case of Richard Brodett, Jorge Joseph and Joseph Tecson has hogged the limelight after anti-narcotics agents insinuated that prosecutors were bribed into dismissing the drug case against them.

They continued to be detained pending automatic review of the dismissal of their case by the Department of Justice.

The three were separately arrested in buy-bust operations by agents of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency on September 20 last year, yielding Ecstasy tablets, cocaine and marijuana.

The DEA has expressed interest anew to share intelligence information on drug traffickers with the DDB following President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo's declaration of a fresh antidrug war.

"I just talked to Timothy Teal of DEA. He said they're monitoring everything, and they're offering help. They're very interested in international connections," Sotto said.

One area of cooperation between the two agencies is sharing of intelligence information, and strategies.

"They want to get information and strategies from us," Sotto said.

The DDB, for its part, asked the DEA for a copy of the latter's manual of procedures on drug bust and entrapment operations.

“I want to compare this with our own so we can come up with better guidelines,'' Sotto said.

Sotto is convening in the next few days the PDEA, Philippine National Police, Armed Forces of the Philippines, and National Bureau of Investigation, among other agencies, to review procedures on drug busts and entrapments.

To put a stop to the bickering between DOJ and PDEA officials over the bribery scandal, the President announced Tuesday she is taking over as antidrug czar, and mobilized government agencies in the war against traffickers.

She also issued a draft of measures, including random drug tests on high school and college students, to curb drug trafficking.