{"id":115318,"date":"2017-08-31T22:58:51","date_gmt":"2017-09-01T02:58:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=115318"},"modified":"2017-08-31T22:58:51","modified_gmt":"2017-09-01T02:58:51","slug":"p6-4-b-shabu-shipment-probe-report-out-monday-gordon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/08\/31\/p6-4-b-shabu-shipment-probe-report-out-monday-gordon\/","title":{"rendered":"P6.4-B shabu shipment probe report out Monday: Gordon"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"FILE:<\/a>
FILE: Sen. Richard Gordon.
(Photo: Cesar Tomambo\/ Senate of the Philippines\/ Facebook)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

MANILA\u00a0<\/strong>\u2014 Although the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee probe on the PHP 6.4-billion shabu shipment has yet to come to a close, Senator Richard Gordon said that his committee will be submitting a preliminary report on the issue on Monday.<\/p>\n

\u201cKinokompleto nalang namin. Sa<\/em>\u00a0Monday,\u00a0meron na tayong<\/em>\u00a0[preliminary] report (We are completing it. On Monday, we will already have a committee report),\u201d Gordon told reporters in an interview.<\/p>\n

Ang<\/em>\u00a0preliminary report\u00a0ko<\/em>\u00a0on drugs and a little bit on \u2018tara<\/em>\u2019 [bribery] (My preliminary report will be about drugs and a little bit on the bribery in the Bureau of Customs). There will be a final report,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Gordon, meanwhile, denied claims of Senator Antonio Trillanes IV that he gave preferential treatment on resource persons to invite to the Senate hearings into the illegal shipment.<\/p>\n

He also denied Trillanes\u2019 claim that he was leading a \u201ccommittee\u00a0de abswelto<\/em>\u201d or a committee that immediately acquitted \u201cmalalaking tao<\/em>\u00a0(big people).\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s without basis,\u201d Gordon said.<\/p>\n

Ethics complaint<\/strong><\/p>\n

The senator said that he will definitely pursue filing an ethics complaint against Trillanes on Monday, the same day he will submit his preliminary committee report on the shabu issue.<\/p>\n

\u201cA Senator is supposed to act in the most cordial and most gentlemanly manner. I already forgave him the first time he even came to my office to apologize.\u00a0Hindi pwedeng ganyan lagi<\/em>(He can\u2019t be like that all the time),\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Gordon and Trillanes got into a heated argument during the probe after Trillanes motioned to invite presidential son-in-law and husband of Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte-Carpio, Manases Carpio and presidential son and Davao City Vice Mayor Paolo Duterte to the Senate hearing.<\/p>\n

Carpio and Duterte have both been tagged by Customs broker and fixer Mark Taguba to the illegal shipment.<\/p>\n

Trillanes said there is \u201cenough information\u201d that would warrant the invitation of both Carpio and Duterte. However, Gordon argued that the Senate is \u201cnot a cockpit of\u00a0chismis<\/em>\u00a0(rumors).\u201d<\/p>\n

Enough evidence<\/strong><\/p>\n

Asked what conditions would warrant the invitation of Carpio and Duterte to the next Senate hearing, Gordon said that he needed to hear from any of the resource persons that the two were directly involved in the facilitation of drugs.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe moment he [the source person] says \u2018ako, nakausap ko si<\/em>\u00a0Paolo\u00a0at sinabi ko sa kanya, tulungan mo at sinabi niya tutulungan kita, bibigyan kita ng pera. Swak na \u2018yan. \u2018Eto ang sinabi lang, mga tao ito ni<\/em>\u00a0Paolo, Davao Group\u00a0\u2018yan<\/em>.\u00a0Hindi tayo nagco<\/em>-convict\u00a0ng tao<\/em>\u00a0without evidence (The moment the resource persons says \u2018I spoke to Paolo and I told him to help and he agreed to help. That would be enough. But he only said that these men worked for Paolo, that they were members of the Davao Group. But we don\u2019t convict people without evidence),\u201d Gordon added.<\/p>\n

Gordon explained that upon Trillanes\u2019 request, his committee even invited Davao City Councilor Nilo \u201cSmall\u201d Abellera Jr. to shed light on the issue.<\/p>\n

Abellera denied anew his participation on the illegal shipment and his being a member of the so-called \u201cDavao Group,\u201d which Taguba claimed facilitated the shipment.<\/p>\n

\u201cDumating si Abellera, di ba pinapatawag niya siya? Nagtanong ba siya?<\/em>\u00a0(Abellera came. Didn\u2019t Trillanes ask to call for him? But did he ask questions?)” Gordon asked.<\/p>\n

Gordon said Abellera was invited to the Senate hearing \u201cout of respect to the public\u201d to find out whether in fact the family of President Rodrigo Duterte is involved.<\/p>\n

But he said that Trillanes seemed to have been \u201cforcing\u201d resource persons to tag Carpio and Duterte to the issue.<\/p>\n

\u201cPinipilit niya kasi. Hindi naman abogado kaya di niya alam kung paano magtanong. Kung ano gusto niya at hindi niya nakuha, magagalit siya<\/em>\u00a0(He\u2019s forcing it. He\u2019s not a lawyer that\u2019s why he doesn\u2019t know how to ask questions. When he wants something and doesn\u2019t get it, he gets angry),\u201d Gordon said.<\/p>\n

The next Senate hearing will be on September 25.\u00a0(With Ma. Angela Coloma-OJT\/PNA)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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