{"id":115412,"date":"2017-09-01T06:00:43","date_gmt":"2017-09-01T10:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=115412"},"modified":"2017-09-01T06:00:43","modified_gmt":"2017-09-01T10:00:43","slug":"taguba-clears-duterte-carpio-of-links-to-shabu-shipment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/09\/01\/taguba-clears-duterte-carpio-of-links-to-shabu-shipment\/","title":{"rendered":"Taguba clears Duterte, Carpio of links to shabu shipment"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Davao City Vice Mayor Paolo Duterte (Photo: Vice Mayor Pulong Duterte – Official\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

MANILA\u00a0<\/strong>\u2014 Customs broker and “fixer” Mark Taguba on Friday apologized to presidential son and Davao City Vice Mayor Paolo Duterte and his brother-in-law, lawyer Manases “Mans” Carpio for linking them to the PHP6.4-billion shabu shipment from China that slipped through the Bureau of Customs (BOC).<\/p>\n

In a statement from his lawyer, Raymond Fortun, Taguba said he never testified or will ever testify that Duterte and Carpio were involved in the shipment of illegal drugs to the Philippines or that they were involved in the \u201ctara<\/em>\u00a0system\u201d (bribery) at the bureau.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am making this statement to clear Vice Mayor Paolo Duterte and Atty. Mans Carpio from any involvement in the shipment of illegal drugs into the country and any anomalies in the Bureau of Customs,\u201d Taguba said in his statement.<\/p>\n

\u201cI also hereby apologize to Vice Mayor Duterte, Atty. Carpio and the first family for the proliferation of fake news arising out of my testimony at the Senate yesterday (Thursday),\u201d he added. Taguba also explained that the names of Duterte and Carpio were \u201cmerely mentioned\u201d by members of a so-called \u201cDavao Group\u201d whose direct contacts to him were \u201cTita Nannie\u201d and \u201cJack.\u201d
\nHe also described the involvement of Duterte and Carpio was \u201chearsay in nature.\u201d<\/p>\n

Moreover, Taguba pointed out that he never met either Duterte or Carpio or discussed any illegal transaction at the bureau with them despite flying to Davao City on January 16, 2017.<\/p>\n

Opposition Senator Antonio Trillanes IV, who earlier insisted to the invitation of Duterte and Carpio to the next Senate hearing into the shipment, said that Taguba\u2019s clarification \u201cdoes not change anything.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2026Vice Mayor Paolo Duterte and Atty. Mans Carpio should still appear before the Blue Ribbon Committee,\u201d Trillanes said in a separate statement.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe text messages he read aloud which named Paolo Duterte and Mans Carpio were never forced on him and neither were they fabricated,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Senator Richard Gordon, chair of the Blue Ribbon Committee, however, refused to have Duterte and Carpio called to attend the next hearing unless there is sufficient evidence to invite them.<\/p>\n

On Thursday, Gordon and Trillanes got into a heated exchange over whether Duterte and Carpio should be invited to the next Senate hearing or not.\u00a0(PNA)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

MANILA\u00a0\u2014 Customs broker and “fixer” Mark Taguba on Friday apologized to presidential son and Davao City Vice Mayor Paolo Duterte …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":115417,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[21555,6054,22527],"class_list":["post-115412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-carpio","tag-duterte","tag-taguba","mauthors-azer-parrocha","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115412\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}