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Two months after being sentenced on a related case, Customs "fixer" Mark Taguba and two others were convicted over drug importation charges in connection with a P6.4-billion shabu shipment from China in 2017 by a Manila court.In a 37-page decision promulgated on Nov. 18, the Manila Regional Trial Court Branch 46 sentenced Taguba, Eirene Mae Tatad, a consignee of the shipment, and businessman Dong Yi Shen to life imprisonment.
He also admitted that the container was loaded into a truck that was owned by his company."It is clear from the foregoing that Taguba played a central role in facilitating the importation of the illegal drugs," the court said."Taguba's direct involvement in processing and facilitating the shipment's entry through the BOC is a clear overt act in furtherance of the conspiracy," it added.
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