Who is Tita Nanie? Solons raise 2 more likely identities of fixer’s link to ‘Davao group’

Senators on Thursday mentioned two more possible identities of the mysterious Tita Nanie, the person that avowed Customs fixer Mark Taguba said connected him to the supposed Davao group of influence peddlers at the Bureau of Customs.

This developed as Tita Nanie's true identity continued to elude Senate blue ribbon committee looking into the P6.4-billion shabu shipment that slipped past customs inspectors and the alleged corruption that made such smuggling possible.

Senators Panfilo Lacson and Antonio Trillanes IV mentioned two more names which could be the real identities of Tita Nanie the name Nanie Cabatu failed to appear in the database of National Bureau of Investigation clearance applications.

Lacson said the NBI should search for a certain “Nimfa Alcantara Cabato,” while Trillanes said he received information that Tita Nanie’s real name is “Nanie Cabatu Coronacion.”

In previous hearings, the committee invited three individuals who could be Tita Nanie.

They included Nanie Kho, the acting chief of the BOC Auction and Cargo Monitoring Division; Dolores Domingo, and Lorna Rosario of the BOC Imports and Assessment Service.

According to Taguba, it was Tita Nanie who introduced him to the other members of the Davao Group, which allegedly receives bribes in exchange for the facilitation of shipments out of the BOC.

Two other people are supposedly members of the said group, including “Jack” and “Small.” Small was later on identified by Trillanes as Davao City councilor Nilo “Small” Abellera, Jr.

Abellera had earlier denied having knowledge of or participation in the said group.

Trillanes earlier claimed that Davao City Vice Mayor Paolo Duterte and his brother-in-law, lawyer Manases Carpio, is behind the Davao Group.

During Thursday’s hearing, Paolo Duterte and Carpio denied the allegations against them. —NB, GMA News