CIDG probes Peter Lim’s ‘escape’

MANILA, Philippines — Police are looking into the possibility that suspected drug lord Peter Go Lim slipped out the country through the back door.

Maj. Gen. Albert Ignatius Ferro, director of the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG), said the elusive fugitive may have escaped through the country’s porous borders.

Ferro said there is no record of Lim leaving the country, based on their coordination with the Bureau of Immigration (BI).

“We are not discounting the possiblity that puwede siya lumabas through the back door,” he told reporters in an interview.

Interior Secretary Eduardo Año earlier said Lim may have already left the country. However, the Department of Justice (DOJ), which has supervision over the BI, said there is no record of the fugitive’s departure.

Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra earlier said Lim has been on the International Criminal Police Organization (Interpol)’s red notice list since March 2019.

Lim is allegedly one of the suppliers of another drug trafficker, Kerwin Espinosa. He was included in the order of battle of the
Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency and indicted by the DOJ on charges of conspiracy to commit illegal drug trading.

Ferro urged people with information on Lim’s whereabouts to coordinate with the CIDG and other police units.