MANILA - Senator Leila De Lima on Sunday denied online hypotheses that she made cheerful amid two events with an affirmed drug ruler.
De Lima said there is no truth to the viral video clasp and photograph guaranteeing that she was spotted with Herbert Colangco, an indicted burglary posse pioneer, at two gatherings in Manila and Quezon City.
She said the video as far as anyone knows demonstrating her with Colangco was really taken amid her own particular birthday party at the Department of Justice (DOJ) quadrangle back in August 2015.
The individual sitting beside her and who was guessed to be Colangco is really Quezon City Rep. Alfred Vargas, De Lima included.
De Lima likewise gave a false representation of another "noxiously flowed" photograph in Facebook as far as anyone knows demonstrating her singing at the gathering of a medication ruler.
The photograph, she said, was taken amid the birthday gathering of her crusade supporter, Zaldy Aquino, at the Zirkoh comic drama bar in Quezon City last December 28.
She said this might be checked with the document recordings and record of the foundation.
President Rodrigo Duterte a week ago named Colangco, Peter Lim and Peter Co as three charged pioneers of medication trafficking operations in the nation.
Colangco prior stood out as truly newsworthy as an individual from the purported "Bilibid 19," a gathering of prominent convicts who supposedly delighted in advantages while in a correctional facility at the New Bilibid Prisons.
De Lima had pushed for more tightly security at the national prison amid her spell as Justice Secretary.
All the more as of late, she praised Duterte's against opiates battle additionally said she associates that some with those killed in the crusade were casualties of additional legal killings.
She has pushed for a Senate examination on the affirmed outline executions of medication suspects everywhere throughout the nation.
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