MANILA - SPO3 Engelberto Durano admitted that he personally delivered the Php1.5 million to Senator Leila De Lima inside the New Bilibid Prison.
This was Durano’s account during the Congress hearing on the alleged illegal drug trade inside the NBP, which links Senator De Lima.
Durano narrated that De Lima’s former driver Ronnie Dayan is connected to drugs lords’ Jeffrey ‘Jaguar’ Diaz, and Kerwin Espinosa.
According to Durano, Dayan often worry on how he can collect money to fund the Senatorial campaign of De Lima.
Because of this, Durano introduced Dayan to Jaguar, who has a thriving illegal drugs business in Cebu.
Durano added that he met Jaguar and another drug lord Kerwin Espinosa at the Reception Diagnostic Center last October 2009.
When Jaguar and Dayan met, they started their transaction on February 2014.
Durano said that more than Php27 million worth of transaction took place between the Dayan and Jaguar.
The witness insisted that he placed the Pnp1.5 million in a shoebox and personally delivered it to the Commando gang’s turf where De Lima and Jaybee Sebastian were waiting.
Meanwhile, a member of the Presidential Security Group also confirmed the relationship between De Lima and her former driver, Dayan.
PSG Joenel Sanchez, who served De Lima when the latter was still the Justice Secretary, said that De Lima and Dayan were ‘sweet na sweet’ when they were together.
Sanchez added that the two even fed each other bananas and that allegedly, Senator De Lima often buy Dayan’s every whim whenever they did they groceries.
Sanchez is one of the 13 witnesses who was presented in Congress against Senator De Lima amid her alleged involvement in the illegal drug trade inside the NBP.
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