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De Lima's ex-bodyguard, former prisons head to testify in drug hearing

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<figure class="op-interactive"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameBorder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/EEWeoIfudiE" width="560"></iframe></figure>MANILA - A former prisons official and Senator Leila de Lima&#x27;s ex-bodyguard will testify on alleged illegal drug operations at the national penitentiary at the resumption of a congressional hearing on Thursday, a lawmaker said.National Bureau of Investigation deputy director Rafael Ragos, who served as officer-in-charge at the Bureau of Corrections, has executed a second affidavit, wherein he claimed to have delivered on more occasions to De Lima when she was justice secretary, said House justice committee chairman Reynaldo UmaliDetained crime ring leaders testified in earlier hearings that they sold drugs from inside prison as early as 2013 to help fund De Lima&#x27;s senatorial campaign this year.&quot;Dati kasi kakalahati lang ang ibinigay. Ngayon, doon sa kanyang salaysay na supplemental, mukhang nagsabi na nang todo [He had given only half of the story. Now, in his supplemental testimony, it seems that he has bared everything],” Umali told DZMM, referring to Ragos.Ragos earlier testified that he delivered P5 million in drug pay-offs to De Lima’s former driver and alleged lover, Ronnie Dayan, at her house.<ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="http://news.abs-cbn.com/news/10/05/16/de-lima-denies-receiving-millions-from-ragos-wheres-that-money">De Lima denies receiving millions from Ragos: ’Where’s that money?’</a></li></ul>Umali also confirmed that De Lima’s former security aide, Jonel Sanchez, would testify on Thursday.Sanchez allegedly got the kickbacks from drug rings according to a sworn statement from convicted kidnapper Noel Martinez. He was put in <a href="http://news.abs-cbn.com/news/09/21/16/alleged-de-lima-bagman-under-govt-custody-faces-probe">government custody</a> last September due to “security concerns.”Bureau of Corrections Director Franklin Bucayu, Presidential Anti-Organized Crime Commission Executive Director Reginald Villasanta and a convicted drug lord will also appear at the hearing, Umali said.<div>DAYAN, BARAAN, SEBASTIAN </div>Umali, however, could not say if Dayan would surface at the hearing. Police served summons at his house in Urbiztondo town in Pangasinan on Sunday but he was not there.Former Justice Undersecretary Francisco Baraan, who is also accused of profiting from the illegal drug trade, will miss Thursday&#x27;s hearing because he is in the US for medical treatment, Umali said.Watch a live stream of the 9:30 a.m. hearing at news.abs-cbnnews.com/live.

A former prisons official and Senator Leila de Lima's ex-bodyguard will testify on alleged illegal drug operations at the national penitentiary at the resumption of a congressional hearing on Thursday, a lawmaker said.

A former prisons official and Senator Leila de Lima's ex-bodyguard will testify on alleged illegal drug operations at the national penitentiary at the resumption of a congressional hearing on Thursday, a lawmaker said.