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Former Dangerous Drugs Board chairman, now senatorial candidate Vicente Sotto III of Nationalist People Coalition (NPC), said that no politician in the city has been found engaged in the illegal drugs business.

However, there are businessmen from Bacolod and Iloilo who have already been included in Philippine Drugs Agency’s (PDEA) drugs list.

He said that before the filing of certificate of candidacy, PDEA had already a watch list of those political candidates involved in the illegal drugs.

Sotto was in Bacolod recently as a guest to the Bacolaodiat Festival, which was on its 5th year celebration.

He said the drugs watch list was a compilation of the records from the different agencies of the National Bureau of Investigation, Philippine National Police, and other agencies , copy of which was furnished to President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo.

He said that if there were some local officials whose municipalities and cities are in the watch list, “it doesn’t necessarily mean that the mayor is directly involved.” (PNA)
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