PDEA: PBBM was never in drug watchlist

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PDEA Chief of Staff and spokesperson Derrick Carreon gives statement following remarks of former President Rodrigo Duterte to President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. during a presscon at PDEA headquartes on Monday, Jan. 29. (MB Video Noel B. Pabalate)  READ: https://mb.com.ph/2024/1/29/pdea-pbbm-was-never-in-drug-watchlist  Subscribe to the Manila Bulletin Online channel! - https://www.youtube.com/TheManilaBulletin  Visit our website at http://mb.com.ph Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/manilabulletin  Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/manila_bulletin Instagram: https://instagram.com/manilabulletin Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@manilabulletin  #ManilaBulletinOnline #ManilaBulletin #LatestNews

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00:00 Thanks for being late.

00:04 We would like to read the agency statement in regard to the allegation that our president is in the watch list.

00:14 So, we are reading the official statement of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency,

00:20 that President Ferdinand R. Marcos, Jr. was never in our watch list.

00:26 The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency categorically states that President Ferdinand R. Marcos, Jr. is not in its watch list,

00:36 contrary to the statement of former President Rodrigo Duterte, claiming that, and we quote,

00:42 "When he was the mayor of Davao, he was shown evidence by BDEA that in the list, the name of the president was there."

00:51 End of quote. Former President Duterte was mayor of Davao from 1988 to 1998, from 2001 to 2010, then 2013 to 2016.

01:02 BDEA, on the other hand, was activated on July 30 of 2002.

01:08 When the agency was activated, it established its National Drug Information System, or NDIS, which is still in existence today.

01:18 The NDIS is the intelligence database of all drug personalities,

01:23 gathering inputs from counterparts from both law enforcement and intelligence agencies.

01:29 Pursuant to its mandate under Public Act 9165, or the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002,

01:35 BDEA regularly conducts intelligence workshops in collaboration with other law enforcement agencies to update the NDIS.

01:44 From its inception in 2002 and up to the present, President Ferdinand Romualdo Marcos was never in our NDIS.

01:54 It is worthwhile to note that when the former president took over in 2016,

02:00 his administration came up with a list, which was then initially called the Narcolist,

02:05 sometimes referred to as the Duterte or PRRD list.

02:09 And upon continuing validation and revalidation, it became the Interagency Drug Information Database, or IDID.

02:19 The name of President Marcos is also not in the said list.

02:25 Based on all the foregoing facts, the BDEA asserts that President Marcos Jr. is not and was never in its watch list.

02:34 And so, our statement exerts an impulse. Thank you very much.

02:38 [BLANK_AUDIO]

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