Rose Nono Lim dares Aciderto to come out
BUSINESSWOMAN Rose Nono Lin has questioned the credibility of dismissed Police Colonel Eduardo Acierto as a witness in the ongoing investigation of the House Quad Committee on the Duterte administration’s war on drugs.
Nono Lin, the wife of Chinese businessman Lin Wei Xiong, cited reports that Acierto when he was a member of the PNP Anti-Narcotics Unit was implicated in the P11-billion worth of smuggled drugs concealed in magnetic lifters found at the Manila International Container Port (MICP) and in a warehouse in Cavite in 2018.
According to Acierto, he is into hiding due to a P10 million bounty on his head.
Acierto attended the House quad comm hearing via Zoom.
Nono Lin, who also attended the House quad comm hearing, has raised the issue after Acierto alleged that her businessman husband Lin Wei Xiong, a Hong Kong national, and drug personality Allan Lim are one and the same person.
She added that the ex-police officer was also among those charged in the illegal sale of more than 1,000 high-powered firearms worth P52 million to communist insurgents during the Aquino administration, and also allegedly involved in kidnapping, including that of South Korean businessman Jee Ick-joo, who was found dead on October 18, 2016 inside Camp Crame, the headquarters of the Philippine National Police (PNP).
Acierto submitted the said report in 2019 to then Philippine National Police (PNP) chief Oscar Albayalde and then Philippine Drugs Enforcement Agency (PDEA) Director General Aaron Aquino.
In said report, Acierto claimed that he discovered through an informant the connection of former Duterte adviser Michael Yang and Allan Lim, who is also known as Lin Wei Xiong into the drug trade.
But during the recent Quad Comm hearing, former PDEA chief Wilking Villanueva told members of the panel that Acierto’s report was “raw” or unverified, adding that there was no proof that the subjects were linked to the illegal drug trade.
However, Acierto claimed that his report then was never acted upon because then president Duterte was the protector of Yang and Lim.
Meanwhile, Nono Lin said that “if Acierto is really telling the truth, why doesn’t he come out and face the cases against him.”
She also pointed out that unlike Acierto, her husband is not a subject of any warrant of arrest nor the subject of a pending case in court.
“Acierto should man up. Face the music if you are really clean,” Nono Lin further said.
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