FORMER Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) agent Jonathan Morales stood by his claim at Tuesday's Senate committee hearing that he recommended the surveillance of then-senator Ferdinand Marcos Jr. in 2012 for cocaine use, but his higher-ups ordered him to abort the operation.
FORMER Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency agent Jonathan Morales stood by his claim at Tuesday's Senate committee hearing that he recommended the surveillance of then-senator Ferdinand Marcos Jr. in 2012 for cocaine use, but his higher-ups ordered him to abort the operation.Morales' orders were in the form of a 'pre-operation report' and 'authority to operate,' dated March 11, 2012, against 'Bongbong Marcos @ Bonget and some unidentified male and female cohorts.
In the first hearing of the Senate Committee on Public Order last week, Morales claimed that he was told by Deputy Director General Carlos Gadapan that it was Executive Secretary Paquito Ochoa who had asked him to abort in 2012 Morales' planned operation to investigate Marcos for cocaine use based on an informant's allegation that included a video of the then-senator at a cocaine-use party.
Agent Stands Firm On Allegations About Marcos Drug-Use Probe
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