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The first operation by the PNP-DEG was the raid of the office of the Wealth & Personal Development (WPD) Lending Inc. at Barangay 252 in Tondo, Manila at 4:45 pm on October 8, 2022. The law enforcers which went in undercover were able to seize 990 kilograms (2,180 lb) of methamphetamine or shabu worth ₱6.7 billion stockpiled inside as well as ...
The Philippine drug war, known as the War on Drugs, is the intensified anti-drug campaign that began during the administration of President Rodrigo Duterte, who served office from June 30, 2016, to June 30, 2022. The campaign reduced drug proliferation in the country, [ 23 ] but has been marred by extrajudicial killings allegedly perpetrated by ...
The National Bureau of Investigation's (NBI) Task Force Against Illegal Drugs (TFAID) and Research and Analysis Division, the Lucena District Office, along with the Philippine National Police-Infanta and Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA)-Lucena conducted a seizure of methamphetamine hydrochloride, an illegal drug in the Philippines, on March 15, 2022 in Brgy.
Philippine activists and the families of victims in a drug war that has killed thousands view with dread the possibility of President Rodrigo Duterte staying on as vice-president for six more ...
President Rodrigo Duterte has claimed that the country could become a "narco-state". Two of the most used and valuable illegal drugs in the country are methamphetamine hydrochloride (known locally as shabu) and marijuana. [2][3] In 2012, the United Nations said the Philippines had the highest rate of methamphetamine use in East Asia, and ...
On May 27, 2020, a Human Rights Watch report showed the Impact of the "War on Drugs" in the Philippines. Children and thousands of people have been killed during anti-drug raids, which the authorities have called "collateral damage," since President Rodrigo Duterte launched his "war on drugs" on June 30, 2016.
The New Bilibid Prison drug trafficking scandal is a criminal investigation and political scandal concerning allegations of government involvement in illegal drug trade at the New Bilibid Prison in Muntinlupa, Metro Manila, Philippines. The allegations were made by President Rodrigo Duterte after announcing that the two top convicted drug lords ...
3 injured. On February 24, 2021, a botched buy-bust operation resulted in a shootout between units of the Philippine National Police (PNP) and the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) on Commonwealth Avenue in Quezon City. [1] The incident resulted in the deaths of two police officers, a PDEA agent and an informant. [2]