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FORMER executive secretary Paquito Ochoa Jr. on Monday, May 20, 2024, denied preventing the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency from conducting an anti-illegal drug operation targeting a group of individuals, including then-senator Ferdinand Marcos Jr. and veteran actress Maricel Soriano, in 2012.
And I don’t recall any occasion that we have met or even talked. So I completely deny that I have made those instructions as alleged,' he said.Committee chairperson Senator Ronald dela Rosa said there were “insinuations” that Ochoa prevented the drug operation against Marcos due to the influence of his wife, Liza Araneta-Marcos, who was his former partner in a law firm.Ochoa vehemently denied such “insinuations” but he admitted that Liza was one of his partners at the MOST Law Firm.
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