The son of Justice Secretary Jesus Crispin “Boying” Remulla will not be subjected to a drug test, the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency said on Saturday, even as it maintained that he would be
PDEA spokesperson Derrick Carreon said Juanito Jose Diaz Remulla III had refused to undergo drug testing “on the advice of his counsel,” after he was arrested last Tuesday for ordering almost a kilogram of “kush,” or high-grade marijuana, estimated at P1.25 million.
Asked if PDEA would insist that Remulla, 38, undergo the mandatory drug test for arrested drug suspects, Carreon said no, adding that Remulla’s lawyer had “immediately intervened.”
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