Republic of the Philippines ) City of Quezon SS. AFFIDAVIT I, LT. COL. FERDINAND L. MARCELINO, Filipino, of legal age, married, a Navy Officer (Marines) in the active service of the ‘Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP), with post office address at Receiving Station Philippine Navy, Naval Station Jose Francisco, Bonifacio Naval Station, Taguig City, after having been duly sworn to in accordance with law, do hereby depose and state that: Prefatory Statement I categorically deny that I was coerced, tortured or intimidated, or offered any remuneration or reward to testify in any proceeding. It is only Sen. Leila De Lima who says so. As a matter of fact, I was only constrained to execute this affidavit due to the misleading claims made by Sen. De Lima in her press conference on September 22, 2016 using my name and my privileged communication with my mistah, without my knowledge and consent. 1. I have been an active member of the Armed Forces of the Philippines since 1990 to present. I am presently a duty officer assigned at the Office of the Receiving Station, Philippine Navy (RSPN) at the Bonifacio Naval Station, Taguig City. 2. In my 26 years in military service, 18 years have been spent serving as a member of the intelligence community after graduating from the Special Intelligence Training School of the Intelligence Service of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (SITS-ISAFP) in 1998. 3. Among my distinguished yet unpublicized contributions in intelligence operations were the neutralization of Abu Sayyaf Group commanders and members, and the successful rescue of several kidnap victims. 4, After a series of successful operations against NPA rebels and terrorist groups in Mindanao and Palawan, I was tasked to hold simultaneous directorial staff positions in the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA), namely: International Cooperation and Foreign Affairs Service (CFAS), Special Enforcement Service (SES), Interagency Counternarcotics Operations Network (ICON), and Intelligence of the Presidential Task Force Drug Courier (PTFDC). In2007, I was also appointed as Chief of the Anti-Terrorism Desk of PDEA. 5. During my stint as a PDEA Service Director, the agency was successful in the following operations: i. The case of theft of 21-million pesos worth of shabu from PDEA’s Laboratory Service Evidence room in August 2006; ii, The operation at a shopping mall in Fairview which resulted in the arrest of PDEA officials and personnel, namely: P/Supt. Jerome Mutia, P/Insp. Joferdy Padillo, Security Guards Jean Granada and Oliver Fernandez; iii, The dismantling of clandestine shabu laboratory and seizure of 1.5 billion-peso worth of methamphetamine hydrochloride in Calumpit, Bulacan; iv.The neutralization of West African Drug Syndicate (WADS), an international drug trafficking organization responsible for victimizing Asian nationals as drug mules; and v. The arrests of several drug personalities and syndicates; 6. All these efforts contributed to the rise of PDEA from being in the list of most corrupt law enforcement agency in the country into one of the Top 10 least corrupt agencies of the Philippine government according to Pulse Asia Review and the 2009 Global Competitiveness Survey Report as published in the World Economic Forum. 7. In 2009, I was chosen as the Most Outstanding Law Enforcer of the Year by the Volunteers Against Crime and Corruption (VACC) and was awarded as PDEA’s Most Outstanding National Staff Officer for my exemplary achievement to the Agency and to the People. I was given the Distinguished Public Servant Award by Rotary Club of Makati Urdaneta RD 3830 and a significant commendation by the Makati Business Club. I was also selected by the US Department of State to represent the Philippines in the International Visitor Leadership Program on US Foreign Policy and Counterterrorism in Washington DC and continental USA. 8. It was also during my stint as PDEA Service Director that we gathered intelligence information on the involvement of certain government officials in the drug trade. One of our subjects was the then provincial governor of Quezon Province and treasurer of a major Page 2 of 6political party, the late Raffy Nantes. Sadly, we were not able to finish our investigation as Gov. Nantes died when his helicopter crashed. 9. After my stint in the PDEA, I worked as the AFP Cell Liaison Officer to the Presidential Situation Room in Malacafiang Palace and the Chief of the National Capital Region Command Operations Branch at the AFP Command Center at the same time. 10. Significant international and national developments during those times prompted then Vice President and concurrent chair of the Interagency Council Against Trafficking, Jejomar Binay, to request the President for my reassignment to the Inter-Agency Council Against ‘Trafficking (IACAT). 11. However, higher authorities opted to put me with the Intelligence Service Armed Forces of the Philippines (ISAFP) and work with the newly reactivated Presidential Anti-Organized Crime Commission (PAOCC). In PAOCC, I launched an operation which resulted to the arrest of 388 foreign nationals for violation of the Philippines Anti-Cybercrime Law — credited in the history of Philippine law enforcement as the largest single day arrests against foreign nationals involved in criminal activities. 12, In 2012, I was once again tasked to work against drug trafficking organizations which have metamorphosed from a mere law enforcement problem into a national security concern. At that time, I was assigned as Commander of Military Intelligence Group 4 (MIG-4) of the ISAFP. 13. It was during my incumbency as MIG-4 commander that the Special Counter Intelligence Project (SCIP) “Enchanted Link” was conceptualized. The Chief of ISAFP, Lt Gen, Eduardo Ano, together with the Command’s counter-intelligence officer asked me to initiate and work on drugs. The broad objectives of the SCIP Enchanted Link include: 1) establishing the involvement of foreign governments in the proliferation of drugs in the country; 2) indentifying men in uniform involved in drugs; 3) determining the nexus between drugs, arms smuggling and money laundering; and 4) determining the nexus between drugs and politics and the degree of “narco-politics” in the country. 14, In March 2014, I launched a counter-intelligence operation which resulted to the discovery and dismantling of the clandestine shabu laboratory in Camiling, Tarlac, which for the record was considered as the largest shabu laboratory ever dismantled in the Page 3 of 6history of Philippine narcotics operations with a three billion pesos (Php3,000,000,000.00) total worth of equipment and drugs seized during the raid. This was the initial tangible result of the SCIP Enchanted Link. 15, After the raid in Camiling, Tarlac, more Essential Element of Information (BEIs) and Priority Intelligence Requirements (PIRs) popped out which include among others: a. Why is the largest clandestine shabu laboratory established right in the home province of then president, Benigno Aquino III, which is also the province where the then Director General of PDEA, Usec. Arturo Cacdac, once served as provincial director of the PNP? b. Is it possible that the syndicates already penetrated the highest political leadership of the country? Or do they simply want to embarrass our government when it will eventually be discovered? c. Up to what extent is the syndicates’ sphere of influence in the political spectrum and law enforcement of the country? 16. As this developed, we also worked on the New Bilibid Prison (NBP) due to intelligence reports that about seventy percent (70%) of drugs in the country is actually being transacted and facilitated inside the NBP. We shared the intelligence reports and information we gathered to the NBI and the DOJ. I even personally gave a briefing to then DOJ Secretary Leila De Lima. 17. A series of meetings were conducted in the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) office in Quezon City, three of which I attended, as evidenced by three (3) attendance sheets dated July 9, 11 & 15, 2014 which are hereto attached as Annexes “A”, “B” & “C’, respectively. Representatives from ISAFP, CIDG, DOJ and PDEA attended the meetings. 18. The participants shared information during the meetings. ‘At that time, intelligence requirements were almost complete and we were already in the stage of operational planning in the tactical level. Page 4 of 6In fact, we already have targets or identified personalities which are confirmed to be involved in illegal drugs and “kubol’ controversy. The intelligence information includes JB Sebastian, Peter Co, Vicente Sy and Herbert Colanggo, among others. 19. The discussion centered on how the operation will be conducted. There was an initial proposal to divide the New Bilibid Prison into sectors, and a specific office or unit will be assigned to conduct the operation to each sector. However, the participants did not reach a point of agreement on the concept of operation plan leading us to think that the conduct of the raid was still put on halt. 20. Notwithstanding, I was surprised upon learning that a raid was conducted in the New Bilibid Prison on 15 December 2014 led by then DOJ Sec. De Lima. The ISAFP was excluded in the raid and the ensuing investigation even though the original plan was for ISAFP to conduct forensic examination on the contrabands including cellphones. 21. The raid apparently resulted to the transfer of high profile inmates “Bilibid 19” to the NBI detention facility, and to our surprise, leaving behind inmate Jaybee Sebastian who was among our targets. 22. Nevertheless, the exclusion of ISAFP in the bilibid raid did not stop me from coordinating and sharing intelligence information to the NBL My latest coordination and information sharing with NBI could have been the drug activities conducted in Celadon Residence in Manila after receiving information from my action agent that the place was used as a storage of shabu. 23. Unfortunate events followed when my action agent and I conducted surveillance in the area on January 20, 2016 at around 10:22 in the evening, but were made to appear as drug lords right then and there by no less than PDEA’s Director General Cacdac whose men happened to have a simultaneous but uncoordinated operation with me. 24, Because of Dir. Gen. Cacdac’s malicious and downright false accusations against me, I was detained from one detention to another leaving me and my family worried and anxious about my life and safety as said transfers were done without due process being done hastily and in deviation of the usual and legal procedures. 25. Iwas last detained at the PNP Custodial Center where, in one instance, then DOJ Sec. De Lima visited me. We discussed the operation in the clandestine laboratory in Tarlac and the possible infiltration of the drug syndicate in the political leadership of which she Page Sof 6told me, “I can assure you the President is not involved.” I was stunned when she mentioned the president, when I did not state his name nor even allude to him at that time. 26. also explained to her the merits of my case and even asked her help to expedite the resolution of the preliminary investigation. But to my dismay, the preliminary investigation took five (5) long months to complete. I was detained at the PNP Custodial Center while waiting for the resolution of my case. 27. Last May 27, 2016, Hon. Presiding Judge Lyn Ebora Cacha of the Regional Trial Court — Branch 82, Quezon City granted my bail application after hearing the testimonies of at least seven (7) witnesses of the prosecution, and ruled that the prosecution's evidence against me is NOT STRONG. 28. My statements exclude sensitive information regarding the proliferation of drugs in the country, as such may involve national security matters, However, if it becomes necessary and indispensable to share sensitive information, I am willing to disclose the same in executive session. 29. I, therefore, execute this affidavit freely and voluntarily without being coerced, harassed or pressured by anybody for whatever legal purpose this may serve. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this 25** day of September 2016 at Quezon City, Philippines. LT. COL. porDnakb LL. 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