MANILA — Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra on Monday said the man claiming to be the “Bikoy” who surfaced in a press conference at the Integrated Bar of the Philippines’ office in Ortigas on Monday needs to bare what he knows to authorities.
“This guy who says that he is ‘Bikoy’ should now go to the NBI and file his complaint if he has sufficient evidence against members of the first family,” Guevarra told reporters.
Peter Joemel Advincula appeared in a press conference at the IBP claiming that he was acting on his own when he appeared in the video denouncing the family of President Rodrigo Duterte’s war on drugs.
By his own admission, Advincula said he was earlier charged for fraud and had been in Naga City’s Most Wanted List in 2012.
He said he was jailed and released in 2016 for behaving well.
He claimed that he had been employed by a certain Tess Ranola in what he termed as the “operation center” of a syndicate and described his position as “control man” of the radio and CCTV base of underground facilities in Misibis Bay.
He said he later supervised payment of protection money using recipients’ tattoos as scanning codes to confirm payment.
Bikoy linked former Special Assistant to the President Christopher “Bong” Go and presidential son and former Davao City vice mayor Paolo Duterte to the illegal drug trade in the video clip dubbed “Ang Totoong Narco-list”.
Go, who is gunning for a Senate seat, earlier denied the allegations in the video.
The former presidential aide also showed his back to disprove the allegation that he was sporting a tattoo connected to the syndicate.