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Parcel containing illegal pills from Netherlands seized in Philippines

Xinhua, July 4, 2015 Adjust font size:

The Philippine anti-narcotics agents have intercepted a parcel containing 1,358 tablets of Methylenedioxy-methamphetamine (MDMA), popularly known as ecstasy, a type of illegal drug, that came from the Netherlands, a senior government official said Saturday.

Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) Director General Arturo Cacdac Jr. said that the boxed parcel sealed in aluminum foil pack has an estimated value of 2.04 million pesos (45,300 U.S. dollars) and was declared as comic books.

The package was seized during the inspection of government operatives at the Central Exchange Center of the Philippine Postal Corporation in Pasay City last Monday.

A 22-year-old Filipino who was authorized by another Filipino consignee to claim the parcel was invited for investigation.

The seized tablets were turned over to the PDEA for forensic examination.

Cacdac said the seizure of the ecstasy was a follow-up inspection on the interdiction that was conducted by inter-agency operatives last month when 500 tablets of similar pills addressed to the same consignee were recovered. Endi