Rainier Allan Ronda, Cecille Suerte Felipe, Mayen Jaymalin
MANILA, Philippines - While investigations are ongoing on personalities involved in the kidnap-slay of Korean business executive Jee Ick-joo, Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre II sees a more sinister angle in the case – destabilization of the Duterte administration.
Speaking at the Senate committee on public order and dangerous drugs hearing on Jee’s killing yesterday, Aguirre said that a deeper investigation into the case could be worth considering based on his destabilization theory, which he disclosed before the panel.
According to Aguirre, before the case of Jee came out in news reports, he had heard that Senior Police Officer 3 Ricky Sta. Isabel of the Philippine National Police -Anti-Illegal Drugs Group was linked to retired police deputy director general Marcelo Garbo Jr., one of the so-called narco generals named by President Duterte.
Based on Garbo’s alleged links to the Liberal Party, particularly to former interior secretary Manuel Roxas II, Aguirre said that the killing of Jee could be part of a destabilization plot against the administration.
“What I want is for us to go deeper in the investigation of the PNP and NBI (National Bureau of Investigation) because this could possibly have something to do with the destabilization of the government of President Duterte,” Aguirre said in Filipino.
Aguirre explained that those involved in the plot would naturally target the President’s war against drugs since this is the cornerstone of his administration.
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