Police are now coordinating with the Anti-Money Laundering Council to check the bank records of Marine Lt. Col. Ferdinand Marcelino who was arrested inside a shabu laboratory in Manila last week. Anti-narcotics policemen seized several deposit slips that shows inflow of some P2.2 million to the bank account of Marcelino last year alone. “Our director (Senior Supt. Antonio Gardiola) has already requested for a complete and through financial investigation to determine if are money laundering activities,” said Chief Insp. Roque Merdegia of the Philippine National Police Anti-Illegal Drugs Task Force. A check on the deposit slips revealed that the biggest deposit was P500,000 on May 26 last year followed by another P200,000 a month later. Another P300,000 was deposited on July 31. The lowest deposit was P30,000 which was made on March 4. “We also found P86,000 cash from his bag, along with a handgun,” said Merdegia. During the inventory of the items seized from him during the raid last week, Merdegia said they also found $210, P2,510, 15 Australian dollars, 20 Hong Kong dollars, and a SIM card for a satellite phone. “Our director also ordered the filing of additional case against him because of the .45 pistol seized from him,” said Merdegia. He said the gun has expired license and that Marcelino is not allowed to carry handgun because of the existing nationwide election gun ban. Read more at P2.2M found in Marcelino bank account | Tempo - News in a Flash A Marine Lt. Col. caught in a shabu lab you say? And they wonder why the government has such a hard time stopping the manufacturing of drugs. P2.2 million is chump change in the drug world.....this Lt. Col. was a small fish. Wonder what ranks/positions the guys making the real cash are.
It sounds like they have this guy dead to rights. His only plausible defenses could I DIDN'T DO IT. or I WAS LOST AND ONLY STOPPED TO ASK DIRECTIONS. Either would be perfectly acceptable in a court here.
Is there a law , custom or policy here that once you deny something... there can be not more questions regarding the matter and no more evidence can be lodged against you? All inquires are immediately stopped, and you are set free? It sure seem like that to me. I think the next time I get in trouble I will deny I am a foreigner, and then I can go out with the accuser for a beer ,, that makes things so much easier than providing proof you are innocent.
My gf seems to think there is such a law because when she says she didn't do something (even though she very obviously did) you would think that I had committed a crime by probing more into the issue and trying to get to the truth.
I am almost sure there must be, If you get a Hit at the NBI or a Pull from the PNP on things that could or not be you you. Go up to the halls of justice and speak to the City prosecutors office and get a FREE Affidavit saying you are not that person and did not do this thing and away you go.
Oh, my gf only thinks the complete denial defense is a right she is entitled to. When I deny something (that I actually did not do) no amount of receipts, affidavits, witnesses, helmet camera footage or cctv footage submitted as evidence will prove my innocence....no matter how solid my case is I am always accused of tampering with the evidence so that it only looks like I'm innocent. Women! Ugh.
Well you know what they say! the woman always has the last Word " Anything you say after, is the start of a new argument"
Busted in a meth lab. Nice. When I think of meth labs I think of white dudes with mullets, stained wife beater shirts, working in a beat up trailer. I love these dollar amounts. I guess the investigation has to use all activity as data points, but it sounds ridiculous as reported in the article. Why even mention a 30,000 peso deposit? You can pull 20,000 out of an ATM for **** sake. I guess the guy had to keep his eye on his small operation. If you don't supervise your workers, all they do is smoke your product and drink red horse.
Well the suspect in question maintains he was at the lab as part of an undercover/properly endorsed operation. Though previously some drug sellers had claimed during their arrest that "Hey this guy's selling drugs too" to no avail
