THE credibility of dismissed PCol Eduardo Acierto has been questioned following his appearance before the on-going investigation of the House Quad Committee on the Duterte administration’s bloody war on illegal drugs.
No less than the camp of Quezon City congressional candidate Rose Nono Lin that raised the issue after Acierto alleged that her businessman husband Lin Wei Xiong, a Hong Kong national, and drug personality Allan Lim were one and the same person.
She even challenged him (Acierto) that if he were indeed telling the truth, he should have come out and first face the criminal cases filed against him.
Unlike Acierto, Rose Lin said her husband has never been a subject of any warrant of arrest or subject of a pending case in court.
“Acierto should man up. Face the music if you are really clean,” she dared the dismissed police official.
Records would show that Acierto used to be a former member of the Anti-Narcotics Unit of the Philippine National Police and was implicated in the P11-billion worth of smuggled drugs concealed in magnetic lifters found at the Manila International Container Port and in a warehouse in Cavite in 2018, and has a P10-million bounty on his head.
He was among those charged in the illegal sale of more than 1,000 high-powered firearms worth P52-million to the communist insurgents during the Aquino administration.
Also, Acierto was 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 PNP headquarters.
Acierto submitted the report about Lin’s husband in 2019 to then PNP chief Oscar Albayalde and then Philippine Drugs Enforcement Agency Director General Aaron Aquino.
In the same report, Acierto claimed that he discovered through an informant the connection of former Duterte adviser Michael Yang and Allan Lim, who he claimed was Lin Wei Xiong, into the drug trade.
Former PDEA chief Wilkins Villanueva earlier told members of the ‘Quad Com’ that Acierto’s report was ‘raw’ or unverified, adding that there was no proof that the subjects were linked to the illegal drug trade.
But Acierto claimed that his report then was never acted upon because then president Duterte was the protector of Yang and Lim.
