| ‘Tatay Pepe’ Epifras Regis. His wife Gloria Regis says the six cops regularly visit their house to ask money for gas or cell phone load. Another cop, with the provincial police, she said, extorted P500,000 so that a drug case against Epifras’ son Manny would not be filed. (Sun.star file photo) |
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Despite objections from defense lawyers, British national Hung Chin Chang finally testified yesterday against his co-accused in the shabu manufacturing case, with the assistance of a Supreme Court-appointed Chinese interpreter.
He pointed to suspected drug financier Calvin de Jesus Tan as the one who put up the shabu factory in Mandaue City. Tan merely hired him to handle it, he said.
Hung’s testimony, which dealt with how the shabu laboratory was conceptualized, was taken to support his application to become a state witness.
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