Philippine National Police (PNP) spokesperson Col. Jean Fajardo said yesterday around 10 sachets of suspected shabu were discovered inside the compound of Lucky South 99 which are now being subjected to forensic examination.
Fajardo said baseball bats and metal sticks, which police believe were used to torture people, were also found inside the estimated 10-hectare compound.
Fajardo said four foreigners three men and a woman - who were among the 160 foreign nationals rounded up in the POGO hub said they were victims of torture.
"We're seeing many illegal activities happening in that scam farm," Fajardo said at a briefing at Camp Crame.
A Chinese national handcuffed to a bedframe inside what was believed to be a torture chamber was among the many discoveries of the Presidential Anti-Organized Crime Commission (PAOCC) at the POGO hub in Porac, Pampanga that was raided on Friday.
PAOCC Undersecretary Gilbert Cruz confirmed on "Storycon" over One News yesterday that rooms believed to be torture chambers were discovered inside the vast compound where Lucky South 99 was operating.
"We already searched 15 buildings out of 46," Cruz said in Filipino. "We saw four rooms that are being used to torture or inflict harm to the workers of this illegal POGO hub, as well as equipment being used for torture, such as baseball bats, retractable metal sticks and other materials used to inflict harm."
They were given 10 days to complete their operation as stated in a search warrant issued by a court.
Cruz said some rooms even had workers, mostly Chinese, who had been subjected to torture.
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