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1. Illegal drug trade -the AFP through its various intelligence agencies is currently undertaking an operational research on the illegal drug trade in the Philippines. -initially the following were uncovered. - Former PAOCTF elements to include NARCGROUP personnel were involved in the drug trade -
There are five schemes that they employed: "tira-pasok", ''sell-bust'',
estafa, kidnapping with estafa and actual involvement in the transaction. - Meanwhile there are three modes used in the entry of drugs into the country: seaport smuggling, airport smuggling and brokerage firms. (ANNEX B) - A schematic diagram on the flow of drugs into the country (ANNEX C) 2. Kidnap for Ransom/robbery activities - PAOCTF organized kidnap-for-ransom/robbery groups through their contacts in the underworld. They let these groups operate until such time that they gain notoriety. - Eventually they neutralize these groups in mock raids and rescue operations. The loot is divided is divided among them with top brass getting the lions share. They also get promoted for these ''achievements''. - The "Kuratong Baleleng" incident is a good example of this type of operations by the PACC, the precursor of PAOCTF. In this incident, PACC elements under direct orders from their superiors summarily executed eleven (11) persons. Several witnesses have surfaced before but the eventually retracted their statements during the incumbency of the former President. - Meanwhile, there are reports indicating that the group of former PNP Chief Panfilo Lacson planned to take over the whole operations of the "Kuratong Baleleng" group thereby the killing of eleven reported members. Attached as Annex D (front page) is our initial overview of the group's extent of influence. 3.
Other reported criminal activities of PAOCTF elements B. Operational updates 1.
On the ROSEBUD Case 2.
On the "Kuratong Baleleng" Case PAOCTF's FUND-GENERATING SCHEMES IN THE DRUG TRADE Tira-Pasok - The Police ransacks and robs the house of a middle-level druglord in the middle of the night without a search warrant. Usually, the targets here are those who have no political influence. This is based on the premise that a druglord will not report such matters to the police because he does not want his operations to be exposed. Sell-Bust - The police buys drugs from a druglord usually through an agent. By engaging in surveillance, the other contacts of the druglord are exposed. These contacts are the ones who get busted. The druglord does not get arrested so that he could expose more contacts and at the same time he could not connect the involvement of the police. The procured shabu is sold in the streets to regain the capital (of course, plus the profit). Then another druglord is reached and so the process is repeated. Estafa - The police arrests a druglord and negotiates with him and his family. An amount is agreed to settle the case and is delivered. A bribery charge is filed against the druglord with the police declaring only a small portion of the bribe. The remaining amount goes to the police. Sometimes, the entire amount is taken without filing bribery. The key player here is the investigator. The progress of the case largely depends on him. He can design the report in such a way that the case will not prosper. Kidnapping with Estafa - This is a slight variation of the estafa. In this scheme, the targets are usually level 1 druglords and their families. After intensive surveillance, the subjects are abducted and brought to a safehouse. Then, their relatives are reached and ransom is demanded for their release. The ransom can take the form of either drugs or money. After the ransom has been paid, all are released except for the druglord who is made to "disappear" without a trace by a clean-up group. Buying and Selling - This is plainly engaging in the drug trade like an ordinary druglord. METHODS OF TRANSPORTING SHABU INTO THE PHILIPPINES Sea Smuggling - As the term implies, the drugs are delivered by a ship usually in a controlled territory. This method is usually done in two ways: one is to deliver the goods up to the shoreline where the receiving party is waiting; and the second, which is the more preferred, is the shipside or "salubong". In this method, the receiving party also boards a seacraft and meets the delivering party at a specific rendezvous point in the high seas. Air Smuggling - Personnel from the airline are recruited to bring the shabu inside the airplane. Maintenance and cleaning crews are more preferred over flight attendants and flight crew because aside from being more expensive to bribe, the latter asks too many questions. Brokerage - The drug lord befriends the owner of a very influential brokerage firm whose containers are considered "green lane" (meaning, it doesn't anymore pass the normal inspection procedures). The drugs are usually hidden inside the assorted goods before it is placed inside the container. (Note: shabu can be transported in either solid or liquid form.) The owner of the brokerage firm is blind of this operation. PAOCTF KIDNAP FOR RANSOM/ROBBERY SCHEME When a spate of kidnappings and other forms of criminality suddenly plagued the urban centers of the country especially in Metro Manila, the people were amazed at the rate PAOCTF solved crime after crime with marked efficiency, often ending up in the death of the perpetrators. In kidnapping cases, it was not uncommon for the ransom to be recovered intact. This organization quickly earned the trust and confidence of the Filipino people. The Filipino-Chinese community, out of gratitude, even went to the extent of raising One Hundred Million Pesos for the procurement of sophisticated weaponry and communication equipment to enhance their capabilities in anti-organized crime operations. While some of the operations were genuine, most of them were not. The modus operandi was for these people to contact different personalities in the underworld and let each organize a hold-up/kidnap-for-ransom group. Through the contact (organizer), each group is provided targets. Once a group gains notoriety through its exploits, it is now subjected for neutralization. The most common method of neutralization is to arrest all members of a group and kill them in a "shootout" scenario. But before that, the kidnappers/robbers are thoroughly interrogated to determine where their loot is hidden. In the case of the "Kuratong Baleleng Rubout", it amounted to Millions of Dollars. Later on, when news regarding PAOCTF's shady activities started pouring in, rescued Filipino-Chinese victims immediately surfaced to defend their rescuers, not knowing that were the very people who had them kidnapped. CONSOLIDATED CI REPORTS ON THE INVOLVEMENT OF PAOCTF IN CRIMINAL ACTIVITIES April 10,2001 CARNAPPING 1. Ping Lacson is the business partner of David Tan, a Tsinoy engaged in the trading of luxury vehicles which are stolen in Europe and in NCR. 2. The stolen vehicles are shipped to Manila by the Chinese triad. Manila serves primarily as the trans-shipment point for stolen vehicles, which are legitimized at LTO prior to its shipment to China. A certain James Chiu, a Chinese triad leader is the contact man of David Tan. 3. A certain Paul Lacson is one of the leaders of organized carnapping syndicate in the Philippines. Paul Lacson usually coordinates with David Tan for the shipment of stolen Mitsubishi Pajeros in NCR. Paul Lacson's group also handles the sales of luxury vehicles to Sabah, Malaysia. SPO4 Cicero Bacolod, a former key PNCO of PAOCTF, is deeply involved in carnapping activities. 4. The James Chiu-David Tan trans-shipment of stolen vehicles from Europe accounts for a minimum of ten (10) luxury vehicles shipped to Manila on a weekly basis. LARGE-SCALE FRAUD AND HUMAN SMUGGLING 1. P/SSUPT Cesar Mancao is engaged in a multi-million protection racket pertaining to a large scale fraud on the issuance of Special Investors Residence Visa (SIRV) to dubious Chinese businessmen. 2. A certain Wilfredo Keng, a PAOCTF asset, is engaged in the fraudulent transactions of SIRV. Keng ears P300,000.00 per Chinese individual who is issued SIRV status. Similarly, Keng acts as a drug asset of the PAOCTF. 3. Wilfredo Keng is also involved in human smuggling at NAIA and in Mactan. A senior BID official identified as Danilo Almeda usually facilitates the human smuggling operation of Keng with PAOCTF protection. DRUG TRAFFICKING AND MONEY LAUNDERING 1. Ping Lacson is the business partner of a Tsinoy named Robert Co in the importation of luxury vehicles from Japan and the USA. 2. Robert Co is a drug shipper who has deep contacts with the Chinese Triad. Robert Co has also contacts with the Japanese Yakuza engaged in the technical smuggling of luxury vehicles in Subic. 3. Robert Co is also engaged in systematic money laundering in HongKong and in the USA. He was arrested together with Ping Lacson and Eric Co in New York for smuggling 7 million US dollars from Canada early last year. Ping Lacson is usually accompanied by Robert Co and Eric Co to attend federal hearings in connection with the confiscation of smuggled 7 million US dollars by US Customs officials. 4. The deposits of the multi-million dollar accounts of Ping Lacson in at least 5 banks in the US was facilitated by Robert Co. 5. Robert Co usually handles drug shipments from China to Manila-Cebu drug route and then to Singapore, Australia, Malaysia, Taiwan, and Guam. Robert Co's narcotic pipeline uses Manila as a transit point and the adjacent province of Cavite as the processing or upgrading centers. 6. Ping Lacson and Michael Ray Aquino are also deeply involved with the drug trading of Peter Lim and David Lam, both Tsinoys based in Cebu City. The market of Lim and Lam is in Mindanao but the bulk of the drugs are disposed in Singapore and Malaysia. Lim and Lam are likewise linked to Li-Peng-Wee. LARGE-SCALE REAL ESTATE FRAUD 1. Ping Lacson and other PAOCTF officers are engaged in systematic real estate fraud in connivance with a senior LRA official during the Estrada presidency. 2. A certain Flory Estrada, a former WAC assigned with the defunct MISC, serves primarily as administrator or real estate property acquired through fraudulent means by Ping Lacson, Cesar Mancao, Michael Ray Aquino, and the Remulla family. 3. Ping Lacson and Flory Estrada are silent business partners. Thousands of hectares belonging to Marcos cronies were manipulated to be transferred through dubious means to Flory Estrada who was once a secretary of the deceased Rolando Abadilla. 4. Ping Lacson is also a business partner of Henry Lim Jr., owner of Steniel Paper Corporation. Lim acquired a large tract of property in Laguna through spurious means. Similarly, Lim was assisted by ex-Judge Enriques, the LRA administrator, in acquiring the said property. Ping Lacson is a co-owner of the said real estate property. 5. Ping Lacson and Michael Ray Aquino were involved in the purchase of a 500-million peso worth of real estate property last year in Glan Cotabato. The property belongs to Erap while Ping Lacson and Michael Ray Aquino are co-owners. The purchase was facilitated by Priscilla Lacson Chiongbian who is said to be close to Ping Lacson. LINKS WITH ORGANIZED CRIME GROUPS 1. Ping Lacson, Francisco Zubia, Cesar Mancao, and Michael Ray Aquino have an oustanding link with organized crime groups such as the Ilonggo Group, Solido Group, Kuratong-Baleleng, and Spider Group. 2. A certain Efren Ceniza @ Boy Pikot, a KB personality who is a relative of Michael Ray Aquino's wife, is a PAOCTF asset. Boy Pikot is usually tasked by Aquino to organize and form a group of KFR and bank robbers. These groups are eventually neutralized by PAOCTF elements. So the basic modus operandi is to organize a criminal group and then neutralize it later. 3. A certain Rolly Fajardo from Tanauan, Batangas is an asset of Francisco Zubia. Fajardo has links with alleged renegade members of Solido, KB, and Ilonggo groups. He has also links with former RSG members. 4. The Spider Group under the protection of former Cavite governor Johnny Remulla also enjoys protection from Ping Lacson. P/SSUPT Teofilo Vina is the handler of the criminal gang composed mostly of ex-military and police servicemen. This group is in cahoots with Romulo Lacson, brother of Ping Lacson and the registered owner of the Green Beret Security Agency. ELECTIONEERING 1. P/SSUPT Cesar Mancao has been openly campaigning for Ping Lacson's bid to the Senate. He has been openly seen distributing campaign materials to the public especially in Luzon (Baguio and Manila). He has been seen twice traveling to Palawan with boxes of campaign materials. PROSTITUTION 1. PAOCTF officers, most especially P/SSUPT Michael Ray Aquino and P/SSUPT Cesar Mancao are protecting criminal syndicates engaged in women trafficking. These syndicates are handled by Chinese Triad operating in the Philippines. A certain David Tan, a majority owner of Pegasus, is a PAOCTF asset. David Tan faciliates the women trafficking to Japan. These women are recruited mostly in expensive men's club like Lexus, Pegasus, and Legend. 2. P/SSUPT Michael Ray Aquino is similarly engaged in the protection of a women trafficking syndicate led by Rodolfo "Rudy" Bediones. Bediones specializes in trafficking Russian and Ukranian women. Bediones is reportedly one of the contact persons of the Russian Mafia in the Philippines. He is the father of popular TV personality Paulo Bediones. 3. P/SSUPT Cesar mancao is similarly in cahoots with a Chinese Triad group engaged in the trafficking of Taiwanese women to the Philippines. These high-class Taiwanese prostitutes are mostly billeted at Lai-Lai Hotel in Binondo, Manila. Mancao is in contact with Chinese Malaysian high-rollers visiting Legend Hotel in Subic who usually serve as clients of Taiwanese prostitutes. UNEXPLAINED WEALTH/CORRUPTION 1. P/SSUPT Michael Ray Aquino bought a residential townhouse worth five (5) million pesos in early 1999. 2. Lucio Tan procided the PAOCTF with P70M worth of four (4) condo units that served as PAOCTF safehouse from mid-1998 to December 2000. P/SUPT John Lopez, PAOCTF Finance Officer has occupied 2 units of the said condominium. 3. P/SSUPT Cesar Mancao is supplying explosives for illegal miners in mt. Diwalwal, Compostela Valley. He bought a cattle ranch in San Jose City, Mindoro Occidental in 1999 and hundreds of hectares of fishponds in Batangas and Cavite. Mancao also exhibits a luxurious lifestyle. He owns three (3) Ford Expeditions. 4. Several PAOCTF officers are owners of a Jollibee franchise at Alabang Road. These officers have also established a corporation identified as Wells Trading Inc. at the PSE Building in Ortigas Center, Pasig City.
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