The Filipino Department of Justice is investigating at least six or seven personalities behind the cartel that hoards, controls and manipulates the price of onions and other agricultural products. According to Justice Secretary Jesus Crispin Remulla, these suspects were the same names that cropped up during a Senate investigation related to the spiralling cost of onions, whose price reached P700 per kilo in December last year.
"There are six or seven names that come out wherever we look at the whole picture. We have a very good idea about this. We just need to catch them on the act," Remulla stated. In fact, he added, the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) has conducted a test buy in Cebu and "we were able to locate who is hoarding the supply [of onions] in Cebu."
[ P100 = €1.70 ]
Source: manilatimes.net