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| DOJ Secretary Menardo Guevarra and Senator Antonio Trillanes / composite photo from ABS CBN |
Senator Antonio Trillanes IV has issued a warning against Justice
Secretary Menardo Guevarra to focus on investigating the drug allegations
first, instead of prioritizing the crackdown on whistleblower alleging Duterte
family of being connected to drugs syndicate.
“Sec. Guevarra should slowdown on his crackdown on
whistleblowers linking Duterte and Bong Go to illegal drugs lest he himself be
suspected of protecting druglords,” he said in an online post.
“Sec. Guevarra must first investigate and disprove the
allegations of both Col. Acierto and Bikoy before he could say that their
statements are untrue,” he said.
The opposition senator made the statement a day after the National
Bureau of Investigation (NBI) arrested Rodel Jayme, who was identified the developer of the website that first shared the viral “Ang Totoong Narco List” video
series which tagged the Duterte family as being involved in narcotics.
The authorities have already filed an “inciting to sedition”
case against Jayme for supposedly spreading the controversial video.
On April 17, Guevarra ordered the DOJ J’s Office of
Cybercrime and the NBI to probe those behind the “Ang Totoong Narco List”
videos, which featured the hooded-man “Bikoy.”
Meanwhile, Malacanang has offered a P10-million bounty for
information leading to the arrest of dismissed police officer Eduardo Acierto,
who implicated former presidential economic adviser Michael Yang and other
businessmen to the drug trade.
Source: Manila Bulletin
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