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PHILIPPINE ASIAN NEWS TODAY March 1 - 15, 2018
Two Canadians get life sentence in Philippines
over illegal drugs
Comprehensive Dangerous
Drugs Act.
The court also ordered
Riach and Shirazi to pay
a fine of $10,000 each
for possession of $20
million worth of cocaine,
Ecstasy tablets and shabu
or
methamphetamine
hydrochloride
(crystal
meth).
Agents of the National
Bureau of Investigation (NBI)
arrested the two Canadians
in a sting operation involving
claimed they were legitimate
P100 worth of illegal drugs
businessmen.
in Makati on January 8, 2014.
The two Canadians also
Follow-up operations led to
the recovery of a big stash of illegal claimed that the assorted drugs
drugs including Ecstasy tablets, seized from their condominium
cocaine and shabu inside two units were planted by the raiding
team.
A Metro Manila regional court the regional court in Makati City units occupied by the Canadians
The court ruled that the
has sentenced to life imprisonment imposed life sentences on James in a luxury condo in Makati.
evidence
recovered from the
The NBI agents were armed
two Canadians over illegal drug Riach and Ali Memar Mortrazavi
with a search warrant issued by Canadians was “substantial and not
charges.
Shirazi.
common substances to assume
The two Canadians are
Riach is said to be a member a Makati regional court following them to be planted evidence”.
believed to have links with a Mexican of the Independent Soldiers gang reports that the Canadians
Riach survived a targeted
belonged to a notorious Mexican
drug cartel, and they were arrested in British Columbia, Canada.
shooting in August 2011 in
for possession of $20 million worth
Riach and Shirazi were drug cartel that wanted to expand Kelowna, B.C. that killed gangster
in Southeast Asia.
of illegal drugs in 2014.
found guilty beyond reasonable its operations
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