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(UPDATED) Senate President Vicente Sotto III says the Senate will not turn over
ARREST? Bureau of Customs intelligence officer Jimmy Guban here pictured during the hearing on the P6.8 trillion shabu shipment on September 26, 2018. Photo by Angie Silva / Rappler
MANILA, Philippines (UPDATED) – Senate President Vicente Sotto III said on Thursday, October 25, that there would be no warrantless arrest of Bureau of Customs intelligence Jimmy Guban in the Senate, unless the chairman of the Senate him over to police.
Sotto said he has ordered the Office of the Sergeant-at-Arms to "secure Guban properly." Sotto said Guban is a guilty witness and a vital witness to the case.
"He is still under custody of the blue ribbon committee," "Sotto said in a text message on Thursday, October 25.
"Although it's up to the chairman if he wants to turn over the witness," he added.
Guban has been detained in the body during the past 12 months.
The Philippine National Police (PNP) on Wednesday said it was planned to take place in custody even without a warrant. PNP spokesperson Chief Superintendent Benigno Durana said they would ask Senate blue ribbon committee chairman Senator Richard Gordon to turn over Guban to police.
In a speech hours earlier, Duterte ordered the arrest of Guban for the sake of smuggling by faking identification cards and facilitating its entry.
Guban early receipt receiving P10,000 to find the deposit-for-hire that would receive the magnetic lifers allegedly packed with your tone of shabu.
Duterte had also published a report on the subject of confidential intelligence. – Rappler.com
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