PH turns over convicted drug smuggler to British cops

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PH turns over convicted drug smuggler to British cops
John Halliday has been hiding in the PH even before a British court sentenced him for smuggling £13M worth of illegal body building supplements from China and India into UK

MANILA, Philippines – The National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) has turned over to British authorities on Tuesday, February 17, a convicted drug smuggler who had been hiding in the Philippines. 

NBI Director Virgilio Mendez said West Yorkshire policemen arrived in Manila on Monday for British national John Halliday, who was convicted by Crown Court at Leeds on December 13, 2013 in connection with £13-million drug smuggling case.

Halliday is the first British fugitive to be deported from the Philippines since the Philippines and the United Kingdom signed an extradition treaty in March 2014, according to Mendez.

“The NBI received in August 2014 a letter request from the Extradition Section, Judicial Cooepration of the United Kingdom, with a copy of a certification of conviction against Halliday,” Mendez said.

The NBI director said Halliday continued his drug operation in the Philippines while hiding from British authorities. He was arrested by NBI agents on January 27 in Taguig City, incidentally where the UK embassy is also located.

NBI Foreign Liaison Division chief Daniel Daganzo said it was UK Judicial Co-operation Extradition Section executive officer Anna Tamba who alerted the NBI that Halliday could be in the Philippines. They sent in June 2014 a request for help in arresting the fugitive.

According to information provided by the West Yorkshire Police to the NBI, Halliday was the ringleader of a syndicate, which smuggled illegal body building supplements called “legal highs” worth £13 million into to UK from China and India between 2010 and 2013.

Halliday had been in Philippines since September 2013, or 3 months before the British court convicted him. Rappler.com 

 

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