A FORMER Customs intelligence officer, a key witness, to the P6.8 billion “shabu” smuggling controversy will stay at the Senate even after President Rodrigo Duterte ordered his arrest, the chairman of the committee investigating the fiasco said on Thursday.

SEN. Richard Gordon, who heads the blue ribbon committee, said on Thursday that the Senate could not turn over Jimmy Guban to the Philippine National Police (PNP) until he was finished with his investigation.

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