Mandaue City’s biggest drug case leads to conviction

MANDAUE CITY—A regional trial court (RTC) here has convicted 11 persons, including foreign nationals, of manufacturing and trading illegal drugs in what could be the city’s biggest drug case.

In a decision, RTC Branch 27 Judge Marilyn Lagura-Yap sentenced to life imprisonment Chinese-Filipino Calvin Tan, Chinese Joseph Yu, Bao Xiafu, Tao Fei and Liu Bo, Taiwanese Wu Tiao Yi and Lin Li Ku, Malaysian Siew Kin Weng and Liew Kam Song, and Filipinos Allan Yap Garcia and Joseph Lopez. They were ordered to pay a fine of P10 million each.

An accused who turned state witness, British national Hung Chin Chang, was acquitted after he testified that Tan financed the operation of a shabu laboratory here that yielded the biggest drug haul the city ever saw.

Antinarcotics agents seized from the suspects at least 675 kilograms of shabu worth about P1 billion and equipment used to manufacture the drug.