MANILA, Philippines — The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) on Thursday made a pitch for using the assets, including cash, of drug syndicates to finance the government’s anti-narcotics campaign.
“Remember, droga [is] pera. Kapag ‘di mo kayang gawing pera ang droga ‘di ka successful as drug syndicate. So ‘yun [drug money] ang kinukuha natin,” PDEA Director General Wilkins Villanueva said in a press conference at Valenzuela City, as he pointed out the freezing of assets of drug syndicates.
(Remember, drugs [is] money. If you can turn drugs into money then you are not a successful drug syndicate so that is what we are going after.)
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