Manila, June 9 -- The final public hearing of the House Quad Committee on Monday ended with a searing indictment of Chinese criminal infiltration into the Philippines and the complicity of Filipino officials who enabled it.

"The Chinese raped us but we helped them rape us," Surigao del Norte 2nd District Rep. Robert Ace Barbers said as he opened the 15th hearing of the Quad Comm, composed of four House panels -- Dangerous Drugs, Public Order and Safety, Human Right, and Public Accounts.

The joint investigation focused on the links between Philippine Offshore Gaming Operators (POGOs), human trafficking, drug smuggling and extrajudicial killings (EJKs) during the bloody war on drugs by the Duterte administration.

Barbers, co-chair of th...