Floating cocaine a ‘diversionary tactic for bigger shabu shipment’

PHILIPPINE Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) Director Aaron Aquino said the dumping of cocaine into Philippine seas could be a diversionary tactic of drug syndicates so they can smuggle a bigger shipment of shabu (methamphetamine hydr ochl or i de) .

“Parang nakikita namin sa PDEA na parang diversionary tactic naman ang ginagawa nilang magpapalusot sila ng maliit pero magpapalusot ng mas malaki (na shabu). Kasi kung titignan mo, wala naman market ng cocaine sa atin, mga two percent lang ang market niyan at walang saysay para gumamit ang locals ng cocaine, so makikita mo, intentional nilang ipinahuhuli ang cocaine tapos itong mga 2 to 3 toneladang shabu ang papapasukin sa ating bansa,” Aquino said Monday, February 18.

(We at PDEA see it as a diversionary tactic so they can smuggle into the country bigger shipment of shabu, because if we look into it, cocaine only has a twopercent market in the Philippines. So the dumping of cocaine could be intentional so authorities will be busy retrieving those blocks of cocaine while they smuggle into the country tons of shabu.)

“Kasi once

na magkaroon ng insidente ng floating cocaine, lahat ng law enforcement naka-focus doon lahat for retrieval and search. Ang tendency, nagkakaroon tuloy ng vacuum ‘yung mga ibang vast coastline natin kaya doon naipapasok siguro ang shabu galing sa ibang bansa… Parang decoy nalang nilang ginagawa ‘yung cocaine and eventually nagkakaroon ng gap o vacuum ‘yung security