Coordinated chain, layers of protection paved way for 2017 shabu shipment

(First of three parts) From 2016 to 2022, separate scandals marked the administration of former President Rodrigo Duterte, who won the election with a promise to eliminate drugs and criminality in the Philippines. There was the 2017 shabu shipment that slipped through the Bureau of Customs (BOC) “green lane,” the rise of his friend Michael