President Rodrigo Duterte, RICHARD MADELO / PRESIDENTIAL PHOTO
President Rodrigo Duterte on Wednesday ordered the arrest of resigned Customs intelligence officer Jimmy Guban.
“Tell me who is this guy asking for money, extortion. I will call him here, I’ll have him arrested, kaya iyang si Guban pinapa-aresto ko,” Duterte said in a speech in Malacañang.
“Sabi ko, right after the session, you arrest him. Sabi ni Albayalde, ‘What ground?’ … Just arrest him, bring him to the NBI. Huwag kayo kasi kayo, na-mention kayo diyan sa investigation. Bring him to the NBI,” he added.
Guban was one of the Bureau of Customs (BOC) officials linked to drugs purportedly smuggled through the port of Manila via the magnetic lifters found by anti-drug agents in Cavite, as named in the intelligence report released by Duterte to Malacañang reporters on October 9.
Guban was assigned at BOC’s intelligence and investigation service. /kga