Malacañang yesterday Thursday welcomed the arrest of Chinese-Filipino businessman Kenneth Dong who is facing charges over his alleged involvement in the smuggling of shabu worth P6.4-billion which slipped past the Bureau of Customs in 2017.
Dong was arrested by the National Bureau of Investigation-Anti-Organized and Transnational Crime Division last Monday in Muntinlupa City.
Presidential spokesperson Salvador Panelo said that while the arrest of Dong was not brought up during the Wednesday Cabinet meeting in Malacanang, he is sure that the President will take this development positively.
“The President always welcomes any arrest involving any person alleged to be involved in drug trafficking or any crime regardless of whoever he or she is,” he said. “Again, I repeat this President is no respector of friendship, alliances, and relationship. Everyone to him is accountable before the law. Everyone,” he added.
Panelo assured that the law will be enforced against those behind the shabu shipment as the President is hard even on himself when it comes to following the law. “When he was mayor, he scolded a traffic enforcer for not arresting him because he violated traffic violation, and he insisted that he should be given that traffic violation ticket,” he recalled.
“Ito lang ang alam kong presidenteng ganoon. So if he’s even strict against himself, ‘di lalo na sa iba,” he added. (Argyll Geducos)
