PDEA mulls suing vlogger over Marcos watchlist docs
The Philippine Star|April 11, 2024
The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency is eyeing criminal charges against a vlogger who used documents purportedly from the PDEA, which the agency said were fake, in claiming President Marcos was on the drug watchlist.

"Pinag-caravan po (We are studying it)," PDEA director general Moro Virgilio Lazo said of the cases against Maharlika, who posted on her Boldyakan Facebook page documents supposedly showing that Marcos is using illegal drugs.

Lazo has certified that the documents - a preoperation report that listed Marcos and some unidentified cohorts as targets of a drug sting, and an authority to operate for a drug target in Makati - are bogus.

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