Drug buy-bust in the wee hours?
MALACAÑANG is investigating the activities of the Hong Kong Chinese national who was featured in this space on Thursday, May 23, according to my sources at the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA).
I reported that the Chinese national has bagged multimillion peso production and delivery of the country’s new generation banknotes, citing sources at the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP).
I also reported that the man, quoting my sources at the DFA, facilitates the supply and delivery of security papers and other components of Philippine passports.
What is dangerous, say my sources, is that he has access to the database of all passport holders since he also represents the French company that supplies the government with passports.
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Now comes another report from my BSP sources:
The BSP has indicated plans to hold a public bidding for the supply of passports.
Taking advantage of his BSP connections, the Chinese national allegedly talked to prospective bidders telling them that assuming anybody of them wins, he would have to deal with him since he controls the source code for the passports’ database.
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The DFA and BSP spend millions of dollars yearly to procure passports and banknotes, including their security components, from foreign companies represented by or identified with the Chinese national.
This setup puts into the hands of the Hong Kong Chinese the database of the entire Filipino nation and vests in him the ability to destroy the Philippine economy in just a snap of his finger.
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A couple of years ago, the idea of having a national ID system was shot down amid a very strong opposition to it by people who resent the idea of putting into the hands of the government the database of all citizens.
Now, the DFA and BSP have unwittingly given a single person, a foreigner at that, access and control over the database.
Worse, a foreign country, France, controls the source code and the government is powerless.
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Remember the scions of rich wealthy families, all spoiled brats, who endangered the lives of passengers of a Philippine Airlines flight from Beijing to Manila by horseplaying in the plane in midair?
The crew and passengers complained to the police about their behavior when they reached Manila.
The young men were arrested by airport policemen, but were promptly released after one of them called the office of Ninoy Aquino Airport General Manager Jose Angel Honrado.
You know who called Honrado? A grandson of a publisher of a major newspaper.
Honrado got scared of the newspaper publisher because he probably has many skeletons in his closet.
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Two San Juan City cops, one of them SPO1 Pablo Sellorequez, chased a holdup man who ran to a house and then went through the backdoor early yesterday morning.
They entered the house and was met by Michaela Joy Reyes, 23, mother of two, who was roused from sleep and nude from the waist up.
The two cops allegedly mashed the woman, and got P13,600 they saw on top of a drawer. The money was rent payment from a tenant.
The two law enforcers allegedly “planted” drugs in Reyes’ house and dragged her to the police station.
They booked her for drug pushing, claiming they caught her in a “buy-bust’ operation.
Reyes’ neighbors in Barangay Progreso, including the barangay chair, Carmencita Sto. Domingo, claim no such operation took place.
A drug buy-bust in the wee hours of the morning?
