Trillanes bares bank records linking Duterte’s family to drug syndicate
Credit to Author: BERNADETTE E. TAMAYO| Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2019 02:47:56 +0000
SEN. Antonio Trillanes 4th on Tuesday bared that he obtained bank records of some personalities – linked to the family of President Rodrigo Duterte – allegedly involved in a drug syndicate.
The outgoing senator said that he got the bank documents from two supposed companions of Peter Joemel Advincula alias Bikoy, the hooded man in a video series accusing some of the President’s family members and associates of receiving payoffs from a drug syndicate.
“I have with me here a set of documents which came not from Bikoy but from two of his companions. These documents, bank documents, I’ve already submitted or sent to different financial intelligence units abroad to validate,” Trillanes said in a television interview.
Asked who owned the bank documents, Trillanes said, “Several personalities linked to Duterte family.”
“I believe Mr. Bikoy is just a front of two members of the supposed syndicate. They gave these documents to some religious persons and I had it checked and validated. The validation is ongoing,” he said.
Trillanes is set to conduct a presscon later regarding the matter. “The objective is to debunk his claim that the opposition or his critics had concocted these allegations using him against the Duterte family and that we paid him some money.”
“So, I brought with me some of the evidence and also more importantly I will be showing a video later on in a presscon about Mr. Bikoy is freely fronting his allegations to debunk any supposed ouster plot,” he said.
“There is no ouster plot. All of these things are just an afterthought when he is already in the custody of the police,” the opposition senator said.
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