Dodie Puno's yacht

Perhaps as the Hayden Kho sex tape controversy unfolds, we will start seeing more personalities surface in the hearings.

Drugs are not within the scope of Senador Jamby's committees but perhaps, with the cooperation of other senators, the people whose names keep coming up as possible illegal drugs suppliers of Hayden will be exposed in the Senate.

Dodie Puno is one of two names making the rounds as one of those possibly involved in supplying ecstacy to Katrina Halili.

The deal supposedly takes place in his yacht, in plain view of other members of the Philippine showbiz firmament.

The yacht, it is said, is also used to fetch massive drug hauls from ships passing through the smuggling lanes near Cavite and possibly up further north near the shores of Ilokandia.

Which makes us wonder if it is at all possible that Dodie Puno also deals with Mikey Ablan, another name circulating as the drug supplier of Hayden Kho. Ablan is said to be the grandson of Congressman Roque Ablan Jr., who was formerly at the head of the PDEA -- the country's anti-illegal drugs police.

One other name linked to Puno is Gretchen Barreto, whom showbiz wags say is amorously involved with Puno.

Puno is a lawyer by profession and is a member of the prominent Puno clan. Of late, co-clan member DILG Secretary Ronnie Puno is a Vice Presidential candidate in the making.

Now, it seems the Puno's may be going head to head with the Cojuancos on two fronts.

First, we all know that Gretchen used to be the girl of Tony Boy Cojuanco.

But, secondly, we also have to account for Gilbert Gibo Teodoro (married to Congresswoman Monica Louise Prieto of Tarlac) whose Presidential ambitions may wane and eventually find him settling for Vice President. In this case, we might have Gibo slugging it out politically with Ronnie Puno.

On one hand, we have Dodie slugging it out with Tony Boy and then Gibo slugging it out with Ronnie.

Sex, drugs, and politics. A heady and high mix.

We urge Senator Madrigal to get to the bottom of this!

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Who is Mikey Ablan? Who is Dodie Puno?

The Philippine Star documented our Senator Jamby Madrigal's brave but unfortunately fruitless attempt to get Hayden Kho to say who his drug dealer is.

Sen. Jamby Madrigal, who chairs the committee on youth, women and family relations, vowed to dig deeper into the drug issue that she said may be hidden beneath the lurid details of the sex video scandal.

Kho told the committee that he and Halili were high on drugs during their sexual encounter that was caught on video. He said the supplier of the drugs was an influential person and known to many celebrities.

But Madrigal, who chairs the committee, failed to convince Kho to name the alleged drug supplier.

“Yes, this guy is very, very powerful, he knows the generals who can have me killed anytime,” Kho said. He said he also fears for the safety of his family.

He said the alleged supplier could also be the one who bought the sex video files for P2 million and had them distributed.

At the hearing, Jamby said that she already had information regarding the identity of the the big time drug dealer who supplied Hayden with the drugs and intimidated the Doctor into giving him the sex tapes.

The blog, New Philippine Revolution, gives clues to the identity of the drug dealer who is said to have been a boy friend of another FHM covergirl -- just like Katrina Halili.

Here is an excerpt from that blog:

Now, let me tell you that there are three (3) names under the PDEA watchlist and this drug supplier of Kho is the member of the Asian drug triad. He gets his ecstacy pills straight from abroad through couriers that pass thru the VIP airport passage.

He's not "old" as what Madrigal believes, but in his middle thirties. He's a son of a retired PNP general. He's the one who reportedly killed a former junior golf champ sometime late 2002 and continues to operate his illegal drug trade through his Pasig city residence.

He operates through his circle of friends, and these people are the same ones which Richard Brodett and the infamous "Alabang Boys" used to deal with.

Now, both Chua and this Rosario reportedly know this person, and has dealt with him several times before, according to sources from PDEA. He was the one who brought those sex tapes because of Katrina Halili, whom this person reportedly wanted to go to bed with.

This drug dealer also used these tapes to extort money from Belo and Kho. There were reportedly "feelers" and "pressures" coming from this dealer, that he'll release the tapes if Belo or Kho refuses to give him money. Belo reportedly resisted and that's why the sex tapes leaked out.

Now, again, who is this big-time drug dealer?

Another hint---he's very close to a legislator who supports charter change moves and once dealt with the wife of this legislator. The wife of this legislator reportedly used drugs (ecstacy and shabu) before. The wife continues her illegal drug use since this day. She was reportedly a party-goer before and gets her drugs from bars. The legislator also uses drugs.

There's reason for Kho to feel threatened since this drug dealer is "malakas" and "well connected" in Filipino society. The backer of this dealer is a legislator who's afraid of being jailed after this administration.

Now, in the halls of the 5th floor, one name is being spoken in not so quiet whispers.  And that name fits in with the description given by New Philippine Revolution.

Perhaps it is the reputation of this one person that has kept Senator Jamby from forcing Hayden to divulge the name of the drug dealer. Jamby is not a fearful person, having undergone rituals that have rendered her invulnerable to bullets and bolo attacks, but perhaps would just like to make sure that Hayden will stand by whatever he says and not fold when things get a little to hot.

In the halls of the senate, as I've said, at least two names keep cropping up.

One name is Mikey Ablan.  He is the grandson of former PDEA Chairman and now congressman Roque Ablan Jr.

Powerful and armed with a deadly reputation, Mikey is said to be the one also supplying drugs to the Alabang Boys.  Compared to Brodett and the other Alabang boys, he's a wholesaler big volume dealer.

Most probably, he gets his supply of drugs from the wide smuggling lane in our country's shores up north in Ilokos.

No one can touch him, it is said.  Not even the President of the Philippines, it seems.

He is well known among the well heeled denizens of Makati as well as the artista crowd that rubs elbows with them.

Another name that keeps on cropping up is Dodie Puno who of late had been linked to Gretchen Barreto.  Dodie is a member of the well-respected Puno family who fathered a child by beauty queen Alma Concepcion.

The Puno's have a Vice President in the making in Ronnie Puno, who is currently the DILG Chief.  They once had Dong Puno, also, who was at some point a powerful broadcaster and head honcho of ABS-CBN.

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