[Closer Look] Garma PCSO stint fed hydra of crime under Duterte

Rodrigo Duterte’s best and brightest officers were criminals and many others, fools who followed orders blindly

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It’s a mosaic of gore and plunder. Duterte’s loyal lieutenants marched into key posts as a crime hydra, stretched its tentacles to snarf down new territories, helped along by a bloodbath extending from slum alleys to mountain hamlets. Mendoza’s affidavit shows direct lines of communications with Leonardo and Garma’s security aide. It also shows how Duterte’s drug list was used to perpetrate and whitewash a crime.

Alive, Barayuga did not figure in any drug list. His name, PDEA officials say, appeared after the murder.Former PCSO chairperson Anselmo Simeon Pinili told House probers that the most probable motive for the murder was Barayuga’s refusal to issue certificates for new STL franchises without approval by all board directors.

Then-interior secretary and now National Security Adviser Eduardo Año, also from the same PMA class, had refuted Sinas’ claim, but otherwise did nothing.Duterte and Sinas stomped on protocol by foisting Garma on Cebu City, despite opposition from then-mayor Tommy Osmena. The couple’s marriage was annulled after he was linked twice to sexual abuse of women under his custody. That did not stop Vilela’s climb. He was appointed police attaché to the West Coast, where he bought into a branch of a popular restaurant.

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