Philippines' President Rodrigo Duterte meets with alleged drug lord Peter Lim
President Rodrigo Duterte has met with a businessman he accuses of being one of the Philippines' top drug lords and threatened to kill him to his face.
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Duterte swept to power promising to kill thousands of drug dealers and criminals
His Government has broadcast a video in which he threatens to kill an alleged drug lord
The businessman in the video denies he is the alleged drug dealer Peter Lim
In the bizarre meeting held on Friday that evoked scenes from a gangster film, the hardline anti-crime President warned Peter Lim to steer clear of narcotics.
"I will execute you ... I will finish you off," Mr Duterte said during the meeting.
A video of the sit-down was posted on a government YouTube channel on Saturday with a caption identifying Mr Lim as "one of the top drug lords in the triad involved in illegal drug operations in the country".
But the businessman denied that he was the alleged Chinese-Filipino drug dealer Peter Lim, who was singled out by the President in an address on national television on July 7.
Ah Gong has no need to execute them because Ah Gong had locked them up for years. Ah Gong was their god for at least 15 years. Their fates depended entirely on his whims and fancies. Ah Gong buttered chin siong up by claiming that he would be the next PM of singapore. Didn't expect that the country bumpkin chink student lim chin siong would take it so seriously. Pride goes before a fall.