The House quad committee orders the arrest and detention of the former chief of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency Wilkins Villanueva during a hearing Thursday, December 12.
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00:00The House Quad Committee orders the arrest and detention of the former chief of the Philippine
00:04Drug Enforcement Agency, Wilkins Villanueva, during a hearing Thursday, December 12.
00:09The Duterte administration's PIDEA chief was cited in contempt by Quad Committee co-chairperson
00:14Joseph Stephen Paduano after refusing to answer questions related to a 2004 anti-drug operation
00:19in Davao City.
00:21The mega-panel approves Paduano's request to hold Villanueva, but Quad Committee vice
00:25chairperson Romeo Ako proposed detaining the former PIDEA chief next year.
00:29Villanueva's arrest warrant will only take effect on January 13, 2025, or when the mega-panel's
00:34hearings resume next year.
00:36Villanueva faced criticism for weeks over the 2004 anti-drug operation in a shabu facility
00:41in Dumoy, Davao City.
00:43On Thursday, he faced Jed Pilapil-C, the wife of alleged drug personality Alan C., who was
00:48involved in the 2004 operation.
00:50Villanueva was allegedly involved in Jed's warrantless arrest.
00:54He claimed he didn't know about it, but Ako refuted this by showing PIDEA records
00:58stating Jed was arrested twice by the agency.