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De Lima leading 2014 prison raid points to drug links: Aguirre

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<figure class="op-interactive"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameBorder="0" height="350" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/8yI5YEpe-tk" width="600"></iframe></figure>MANILA - A top police official&#x27;s claim that his men were eased out of a raid on the national penitentiary two years ago boosted allegations then justice secretary Leila de Lima was in cahoots with detained drug lords, the incumbent justice chief said Thursday.By preempting the police raid with one led by the Bureau of Corrections, which under her supervision, De Lima effectively gave detained crime kingpin Jaybee Sebastian a monopoly of illegal drug operations in the National Bilibid Prisons, Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre said.<ul class="op-related-articles" title="Read">	<li>LOOKBACK: <a href="http://news.abs-cbn.com/video/news/09/21/16/lookback-de-lima-and-the-2014-bilibid-raid">De Lima and the 2014 Bilibid raid </a></li></ul>Witnesses told a House of Representatives hearing this week that Sebastian organized fellow inmates to sell drugs from prison to raise funds for De Lima&#x27;s senatorial campaign last May.The testimony of Director Benjamin Magalong, the chief of the police Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) showed that De Lima planned a &quot;staged&quot; raid.&quot;Very clear na ngayon na ini-preempt nila ang Oplan Cronus para iyung kanilang plano ang gawin [It&#x27;s very clear that they pre-empted Oplan Chronos to give way to their own plan],&quot; Aguirre told DZMM, referring to Magalong&#x27;s botched plan to raid the NBP.&quot;Tulad ng sinasabi ng inmates, iyang raid ay ginawa lang para ma-solo ni Jaybee Sebastian ang drug trade sa buong NBP [Like what other inmates are saying, that raid was only conducted so Jaybee Sebastian could monopolize the drug trade],&quot; he added.The NBP raids exposed how high-profile convicts were &quot;<a href="http://news.abs-cbn.com/video/nation/metro-manila/12/15/14/look-hot-tub-sex-doll-inside-bilibid-cell">living like kings</a>&quot; in air-conditioned villas equipped with hot tubs and stripper poles. One of the inmates booted out of his villa, Herbert Colanggo, testified against De Lima in the Congress hearings this week.

A top police official's claim that his men were eased out of a raid on the national penitentiary two years ago boosted allegations then justice secretary Leila de Lima was in cahoots with detained drug lords, the incumbent justice chief said Thursday.

A top police official's claim that his men were eased out of a raid on the national penitentiary two years ago boosted allegations then justice secretary Leila de Lima was in cahoots with detained drug lords, the incumbent justice chief said Thursday.