TALIÑO
POLICE Regional Office (PRO-7) Chief Noli Taliño said they are validating information that new players and modes of exchange have been used by drug syndicates to prevent them from getting caught.
“All information we received should be investigated, and newly identified drug personalities will be subjected to validation,” he said in an interview yesterday.
Yogi Filemon Ruiz, director of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency in Central Visayas (PDEA-7), recently revealed that drug dealers now course payments through banks to avoid arrest.
Taliño tacitly admitted it’s not easy to address the trick used by drug syndicates. “Anyone can deposit money in banks, and banks also accept clients,” he said.
Ruiz said that with the cooperation of bank officers, drug suppliers are being traced.
The PDEA-7 director, during the Provincial Peace and Order Council (PPOC) meeting at the Cebu Capitol on Thursday, said prices of shabu increased from P1,300 to up to P2,500.
Ruiz said most of the illegal drugs sold in Central Visayas came from the National Bilibid Prison (NBP) and in Mindanao.
But due to the aggressive campaign of the government against illegal drugs, he said there has been a shortage of shabu coming from NBP and Mindanao.