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A raid has uncovered drug lords ‘living like kings’ in luxury cells with stripper bars and jacuzzis at the Philippines’ main prison.
The sex, drugs and bribery scandal has shocked a country inured to tales of official corruption.
The revelations were headline news Tuesday, a day after police commandos swooped on the infamously crowded Bilibid prison complex to verify reports drug rings were operated from behind bars.
Police found methamphetamine or ‘ice’, cash, inflatable sex dolls, a stripper bar and a jacuzzi spread across 20 air-conditioned ‘villas’ built for convicted drug dealers, according to Justice Secretary Leila de Lima.
‘The military should take over the prison, and all the people involved from top to bottom must be fired,’ Dante Jimenez, founder of the Manila-based watchdog group Volunteers Against Crime and Corruption, told AFP.