{"id":122827,"date":"2017-10-11T03:44:04","date_gmt":"2017-10-11T07:44:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=122827"},"modified":"2017-10-11T03:44:04","modified_gmt":"2017-10-11T07:44:04","slug":"trillanes-on-paolo-mans-lifestyle-check-a-cover-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/10\/11\/trillanes-on-paolo-mans-lifestyle-check-a-cover-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Trillanes on Paolo, Mans lifestyle check: a cover-up"},"content":{"rendered":"
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FILE: Senator Antonio Trillanes IV\u00a0(Photo:<\/a> Antonio “Sonny” Trillanes\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Senator Antonio Trillanes IV on Wednesday condemned the Senate blue ribbon committee proposal to have a lifestyle check on President Rodrigo Roa Duterte\u2019s son and son-in-law on their involvement in the P6.4 billion-worth of shabu shipment from China, calling it a \u2018clear case of cover-up\u2019<\/p>\n

Senate blue ribbon committee Chairman Richard Gordon, in a draft report on Tuesday, recommended the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) to conduct a lifestyle check on Davao City Mayor Paolo Duterte and Manases Carpio \u2013 both tagged by Trillanes as the ones alleged to be behind the facilitation of drug shipments and payments or the so-called \u2018Davao Group.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201cSuspected drug pushers and users are wantonly killed in the streets while the people behind the illegal drug smuggling are merely subjected to a lifestyle check. This is a clear case of cover-up by Senator Gordon to please his political master,\u201d Trillanes said in a statement on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Trillanes stressed that if Gordon was really \u2018serious\u2019 in solving this case, then the hearing should not be terminated and the President\u2019s relatives should not be cleared yet until Nanie Cabato-Coronacion or \u201cTita Nanie\u201d is located. The Senator said that Gordon was doing this cover-up as service to ‘please his political master.’<\/p>\n

Tita Nanie is the alleged Davao Group contact of Bureau of Customs (BOC) fixer Mark Ruben Taguba.<\/p>\n

According to Senator Tito Sotto, the report is still a draft and that senators can still recommend amendments before being adopted.<\/p>\n

\u201cKung mayroong hinahanap pa ang ibang miyembro namin at ibang bumabasa ng<\/em> committee report, \u2018wag sila mag-alala, pag-uusapan pa sa<\/em> plenary \u2018yan. Ang mga <\/em>committee report sa<\/em> Senate\u2026 kailangan i<\/em>-report out, i<\/em>-defend, and i<\/em>-approve (If other members are looking for more, do not worry for we will still discuss it in the plenary. Committee reports in the Senate need to be reported, defended, approved), then it becomes a Senate report,\u201d Sotto told reporters.<\/p>\n

On September 7, during the Senate hearing on the P6.4 billion worth of shabu that slipped BOC, the younger Duterte and Carpio both denied any involvement with the Davao Group.<\/p>\n

In September, Trillanes accused Gordon of protecting the President and calling his committee as \u2018comite de absuelto\u2019 or a body absolving the accused of wrongdoing \u2013 which the blue ribbon committee Chair countered with an ethics complaint.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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