{"id":184623,"date":"2018-10-08T05:54:47","date_gmt":"2018-10-08T09:54:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=184623"},"modified":"2018-10-08T05:54:47","modified_gmt":"2018-10-08T09:54:47","slug":"palace-denies-prrd-aide-used-bundle-cash-hk-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/10\/08\/palace-denies-prrd-aide-used-bundle-cash-hk-trip\/","title":{"rendered":"Palace denies PRRD aide used \u2018bundle of cash\u2019 in HK trip"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u201cWala naman silang pruweba. Wala hong katotohanan \u2018yan (They don\u2019t have any proof. There\u2019s no truth to that report),\u201d he added. (File Photo<\/a>: Bong Go\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0— Malaca\u00f1ang on Monday denied a news report, which claimed that one of President Rodrigo R. Duterte\u2019s bodyguards was “carrying a bundle of cash” for purchases made during the Chief Executive\u2019s quick break in Hong Kong over the weekend.<\/p>\n

Journalist Ellen Tordesillas wrote about the said bundle of cash in her Vera Files article “Duterte in Hong Kong with Honeylet and daughter Kitty\u201d published on Saturday (Oct. 6).<\/p>\n

\u201cHindi ho totoo yan. Wala po may hawak na bundle-bundle na pera. Intriga \u2018yan<\/em>\u00a0(That\u2019s not true. Nobody was holding a bundle of cash. That\u2019s all intrigue),\u201d Duterte\u2019s top aide, Christopher \u201cBong\u201d Go, told reporters in a telephone interview.<\/p>\n

\u201cWala naman silang pruweba. Wala hong katotohanan \u2018yan<\/em>\u00a0(They don\u2019t have any proof. There\u2019s no truth to that report),\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

On Saturday night, Go uploaded photos of him with Duterte, who was joined by his common-law wife Honeylet Avance\u00f1a and daughter Kitty.<\/p>\n

Go told reporters in a text message that the President arrived in Hong Kong early Saturday morning to take a \u201cmuch-needed break\u201d and was set to return on Sunday.<\/p>\n

He denied that Duterte went to Hong Kong simply to shop, but to mainly get rest and bond with his youngest daughter, which he rarely had a chance to do for the past two and a half years in office.<\/p>\n

\u201cYung bonding with his daughter na nami-miss na niya na di niya nagagawa (he missed it because he hasn\u2019t done it) for the past two and a half years,\u201d Go said.<\/p>\n

Duterte\u2019s medical results<\/strong><\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Go was mum on the results of recent medical tests on the President.<\/p>\n

\u201cHindi ko masasagot \u2018yan. Yung sakit niya di talaga mahanap (I can\u2019t answer that question. I know they can\u2019t identify an illness),\u201d Go said.<\/p>\n

Asked if Duterte was willing to release the results to the public, Go said it was for the President to decide.<\/p>\n

\u201cSi Presidente lang po makakasagot niyan. Sinabi ko kung serious, di ba nasa Constitution naman na kung serious kailangan i-divulge. Wala namang serious illness ang Pangulo (It\u2019s only the President who can answer that question. But if it\u2019s serious, isn\u2019t it in the Constitution that he needs to divulge if it\u2019s serious? The President doesn\u2019t have a serious illness),\u201d Go said.<\/p>\n

Earlier, the 73-year-old President bared that he underwent an endoscopy and colonoscopy and was advised to have repeat tests.<\/p>\n

Duterte said he did not know his current state of health but vowed to tell the public if it was cancer.\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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