Singson gets 18 months jail term for cocaine smuggle
02/25/2011Hong Kong — A Philippine congressman from one of the country’s most powerful political families was sentenced to 18 months’ jail yesterday for smuggling cocaine and another drug into Hong Kong.
District Court Judge Joseph Yau described the prison term as a serious fall from grace for Rep. Ronald Singson, a politician and music promoter, who was caught with drugs at Hong Kong’s international airport last year.
Earlier this year, the colorful 42-year-old Singson admitted to bringing 6.67 grams of pure cocaine and two tablets of the narcotic Nitrazepam into the city on July 11, 2010. A vial of cocaine was found in his underwear.
“The defendant imported a substantial amount of cocaine into Hong Kong,” Judge Yau told the packed courtroom, adding that Singson was a politician whose family has substantial wealth..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/nation/20110225nat1.html
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