{"id":116659,"date":"2017-09-07T22:40:13","date_gmt":"2017-09-08T02:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=116659"},"modified":"2017-09-07T22:40:13","modified_gmt":"2017-09-08T02:40:13","slug":"paolo-duterte-refuses-tattoo-decoding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/09\/07\/paolo-duterte-refuses-tattoo-decoding\/","title":{"rendered":"Paolo Duterte refuses tattoo ‘decoding’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Davao City Vice Mayor Paolo Duterte and brother-in-law Atty. Mans Carpio take their oath before testifying in the 5th public hearing on the P 6.4-B shabu shipment. (PRIB Photo<\/a> by Cesar Tomambo via Senate of the Philippines\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

MANILA, Philippines \u2014 \u201cNo way.\u201d<\/p>\n

That was the response of Davao City Vice Mayor Paolo Duterte to the invitation of Senator Antonio Trillanes IV to examine his tattoo to prove connection to an illegal drug triad.<\/p>\n

In a senate hearing on Thursday, probing the alleged involvement of the president\u2019s son to the P6.4 billion shabu smuggling scandal at the Bureau of Customs, Trillanes asked Duterte to have his dragon tattoo on his back examined by the United State\u2019s Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) to identify if it is the same tattoo etched on members of an international \u2018drug triad\u2019.<\/p>\n

\u201cInamin n\u2019ya<\/em> (Duterte) na meron s\u2019yang <\/em>tattoo. Ngayon tinatanong ako ng ebidensya. Ang ebidensya po ng<\/em> membership ng<\/em> triad ay \u2018yung<\/em> tattoo mismo kasi meron s\u2019yang<\/em> sacred digits. Ngayon kung<\/em> willing itong<\/em> si Vice Mayor Duterte, pi-picture-an natin tapos ipapadala natin sa<\/em> US DEA para<\/em> i-decode. Kung <\/em>willing ka lang naman<\/em>. [He admitted that he has a tattoo. Now I\u2019m asked for evidence. The evidence of membership to the triad is the tattoo because it has sacred digits. Now if Vice Mayor Duterte is willing, we will take a picture of it (tattoo) and send to the US DEA for decoding] Are you willing, Vice Mayor Duterte?” Trillanes said.<\/p>\n

Trillanes\u2019s allegation was met with laughs and smirks from Duterte and his camp. He refused multiple times to accept Trillanes\u2019s invitation.<\/p>\n

According to Trillanes, Duterte and a certain Charlie Tan, a friend of Duterte, are triad members. The triad, Trillanes said, is based in China, Hong Kong, and Macau and is engaged in criminal activities like drug smuggling.<\/p>\n

He added that billions worth of shabu was smuggled into the country due to Duterte\u2019s membership in the triad.<\/p>\n

In a media interview after the proceedings, Ranier Madrid, Duterte\u2019s counsel, said that he advised his client to not show his tattoo in the senate hearing.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhy do we have to play his (Trillanes) game? Uto-uto ba kami<\/em> [Are we gullible]? Will I let my client play his game? No way,\u201d Madrid said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe job of the lawyer is to make the enemy play our game. Now, my game is to show him as a propagandist. He always resource to intel reports, hearsay, tsismis<\/em>, everything,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Madrid also called on Trillanes to surface the documents and witnesses that the latter claimed would prove Duterte\u2019s involvement in illegal drug smuggling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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