NBI vows probe on tagging some Negocc media as ‘drug protectors’

MANILA - The National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) in Manila has assured the members of the Negros Press Club (NPC) based in Bacolod City that they will act on the complaint of some local media who were tagged as alleged drug protectors.

NPC officers led by outgoing president Renato Duran, Dolly Yasa, and Glazyl Masculino met with NBI deputy director

for investigation Vicente De Guzman III at the NBI office on February 22.

De Guzman then referred the case to Supervising Agent Jerome Hernandez, executive officer for operations of NBI Cybercrime Division.

Hernandez explained to the NPC officers the process of gathering of evidence in identifying the persons behind the lists which circulated on social media few weeks ago.

The supposed drug lists identified some members of the media, politicians, lawyers, and law enforcers as alleged drug protectors.

Earlier, Duran also met with Nbi-bacolod head Renoir Baldovino to seek assistance in tracing the source of the said lists.

Duran said the local media do not take the incident lightly and that the persons behind it should be held liable for what they did.

The media groups in the province earlier denounced the lists, which they claimed as “malicious.”

The statement said the inconsistencies and seeming lack of logic in the composition of these lists.

The media community demanded the authorities to investigate and get the cowards and the criminals.*