Drug tipsters get P7.5M

The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) handed out on Tuesday over P7.5 million in cash rewards to six civilian informants and another P6 million in cash for a job well-done to five antinarcotics units.

Aaron Aquino, PDEA director general, said the P7.5 million in reward was given to civilian tipsters under PDEA’s “Operation: Private Eye.”

The P6-million cash was given five units with “meritorious antidrug operations” under “Operation: Lawmen.”

In a statement on Tuesday, Aquino said the P7.5 million was given to informants with the code names Krugger, Jacpat, Mata, Keeper, BI-1 and Highway Man. —Jeannette I. Andrade