Bilibid High-Profile detainee Colangco to testify versus De Lima — DOJ

Sentenced equipped thief and street pharmacist Herbert Colangco will affirm against Sen. Leila De Lima, Justice Sec. Vitaliano Aguirre II said on Friday, as reported by radio dzBB. Beside Colangco, who is kept at the New Bilibid Prison, other prominent detainees will likewise affirm that de Lima got drug cash. "Colangco is one of the 10 to 12 prominent detainees na mag-te-affirm," Aguirre said.
Aguirre had said two witnesses guaranteed De Lima professedly got P5 million from medication continues in only one conveyance at her home in Parañaque City. A previous authority and specialists of the National Bureau of Investigation have additionally guaranteed to affirm on De Lima's medication joins, as indicated by the Justice boss. The House of Representatives has set the hearing on the claimed expansion of unlawful medications at the New Bilibid Prison on September 20 which De Lima said she would not go to, refering to interparliamentary obligingness. De Lima is likewise confronting a morals grievance recorded before the Senate morals board of trustees over her asserted inclusion in the unlawful medication exchange. The congressperson has since denied the assertions against her.