MAJ. Ferdinand Marcelino, head of the Special Enforcement Service of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA), denies criticism he snubbed a probe being conducted by the National Bureau of Investigations into the “Alabang Boys Scandal.”
Marcelino’s team arrested three men–Richard Brodett, Joseph Tecson and Jorge Joseph–suspected of peddling drugs in a buy-bust operation in Alabang last September. He also accused prosecutors of taking bribes from the suspects in exchange for their release.
VERA Files interviewed Marcelino and filed this report.
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