Remulla: Claim HPG officers retrieved smuggled cigarettes ‘conjecture’

MANILA, Philippines — Interior Secretary Jonvic Remulla maintained that it was “conjecture” to say the Philippine National Police–Highway Patrol Group (PNP-HPG) officers who figured in a supposed raid of a Bureau of Customs (BOC) facility were ordered to retrieve the smuggled cigarettes there. The claim originated from veteran journalist and former Inquirer columnist Ramon Tulfo