TIMELINE OF SHABU TRAFFICKING IN THE PHILIPPINES

(DU30 ADMIN)
MAY 26, 2017 August 7, 2018 August 10, 2018

P6.4 B worth of shabu Php 3.4B shabu shipment P6.8 billion worth of shabu
arrived in Manila on May 16 arrived on June 28, but was slipped Customs.
seized on May 26. left unclaimed after 30
days. It was inside a 20-foot Per BOC, it arrived on July
According to Anoche Dee, container van intercepted 11.
caretaker of the on August 7.
warehouse, there were 4
shabu shipments:
(1) June 2016
(2) January 2017
(3) March 2017
(4) May 2017
23 crates all in all worth
Php 28.9 Billion for 4
shipments. Warehouse
rented since May 2016.
604 kilos 500 Kilos Est. 1 TON

Seized in 2 warehouses in MICP August 10, the magnetic

Valenzuela City scrap lifters were then
found in a warehouse in
General Mariano Alvarez in
Cavite emptied, and
confirmed by PDEA's drug-
sniffing dogs to have
contained drugs.

Point of Entry: Manila Manila International Manila International

International Container Container Port Contained Port
Port
Declaration: kitchenware declared as door frames
for construction,

Importer: EMT Trading consigned to Vecaba consignee SMYD Trading

owned by Eirene Tatad Trading International, owned by Marina dela Cruz
which is not accredited by Signapan and customs
the BOC. Owned by broker Katrina Grace
Vedasto Cabral Araquel Cuasay.
from Sampaloc, Manila.

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Shipper, Richard Tan aka The magnetic lifters were
Chen Ju Long – owner of tagged red – meaning, they
Hong Fei Philippines called only had to go through a
the BOC that the shipment non-intrusive X-ray
contained drugs per
information from Chinese
customs authorities.

Contained in 5 steel Concealed in two magnetic four magnetic lifters with

cylinders lifters, weighing four tons traces of the illegal drug
each

shipment came into the

country at the end of June
and was dispatched to the
warehouse, rented at
P150,000 per month for a
year, by July 13. Authorities
believed the magnetic
lifters came in as one
shipment from Taiwan. K-9
units detected traces of the
illegal drug.
Origin: CHINA transhipment point is sourced from Taiwan and
Malaysia used Malaysia as a
transshipment point

Then, Customs The PDEA informed the PDEA raided the

Commissioner Nicanor E. Customs bureau that they warehouse in Barangay F.
Faeldon disclosed that the have received an Reyes after a caretaker
twin raids were launched intelligence report that a informed authorities about
following an intelligence drug shipment has entered the lifters that arrived on
report provided by Zhang the country through the June 14.
Xiaohui, director of MICP.
International Enforcement
Cooperation Division of
Anti-Smuggling Bureau,
General Administration of
China Customs, stating that
two warehouses were
being used in illegal drugs
operations.
(PDEA was called later.)

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BOC Commissioner BOC Commissioner Isidro BOC Commissioner Isidro
Nicanor Faeldon Lapeña assumed his post Lapeña
in August 2017.

Transnational organized Golden Triangle Drug rings operating in the

crime syndicate involved: Golden Triangle in the
Chinese Triad shared borders of Laos,
Myanmar and Thailand are
believed to be behind the
multibillion-peso shabu
shipments.

Source:

1. http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/921532/shipment-to-valenzuela-p6-4-billion-shabu-
smuggling-bureau-of-customs-philippine-drug-enforcement-agency-fidel-anoche-
dee
2. https://www.rappler.com/newsbreak/iq/178667-timeline-smuggled-shabu-china-
customs
3. https://news.mb.com.ph/2017/05/28/p6-4-b-shabu-seized-in-boc-led-operations-
in-valenzuela-city/
4. https://businessmirror.com.ph/boc-breached-sop-in-seizure-of-p6-4-billion-shabu-
shipment/
5. https://news.mb.com.ph/2018/08/07/500-kilos-of-shabu-intercepted-in-micp/
6. https://www.philstar.com/headlines/2018/08/11/1841547/shabu-worth-p68-billion-
slips-past-customs
7. https://www.rappler.com/nation/209340-customs-commissioner-isidro-lapena-
asks-pdea-pnp-share-intel-information