Mindanao politician financed flight linked to Laos drug seizure

MANILA, Philippines—A politician from Mindanao financed the chartered flight linked to the 521-kilogram shabu seizure in Laos, according to the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA). “Yung financier nitong drug na to, natukoy na po natin. Itong politiko na to is based in the South, so taga Mindanao,” said PDEA spokesperson Atty. Joseph Frederick Calulut in