{"id":213354,"date":"2019-05-08T05:49:33","date_gmt":"2019-05-08T09:49:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=213354"},"modified":"2019-05-08T05:49:33","modified_gmt":"2019-05-08T09:49:33","slug":"lacson-cancels-senate-inquiry-on-bikoys-allegations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/05\/08\/lacson-cancels-senate-inquiry-on-bikoys-allegations\/","title":{"rendered":"Lacson cancels Senate inquiry on Bikoy&#8217;s allegations"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_207434\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-207434\" style=\"width: 3600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/mg4236.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-207434\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/mg4236.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"3600\" height=\"2400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/mg4236.jpg 3600w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/mg4236-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/mg4236-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/mg4236-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/mg4236-20x13.jpg 20w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 3600px) 100vw, 3600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-207434\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE: KAPIHAN SA SENADO. Senator Panfilo Lacson talks about allegations of ex-police colonel Eduardo Acierto regarding the alleged involvement of Chinese businessman Michael Yang, in illegal drugs during the weekly Kapihan sa Senado on Thursday (March 28, 2019). Lacson said the former police colonel&#8217;s claims should be investigated and not just dismissed. He also wished President Rodrigo Duterte good health on his 74th birthday. (PNA photo by Avito C. Dalan)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; Senator Panfilo Lacson announced on Wednesday the cancellation of the Senate inquiry into the allegations made by Peter Joemel Advincula, who claimed to be \u201cBikoy\u201d in a video series which linked President Rodrigo Duterte, his family, and allies in the illegal drug trade scheduled on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Lacson, chair of the Senate committee on public order and dangerous drugs, made the announcement after Senate President Vicente Sotto III bared that Advincula was the same person who implicated former President Benigno Aquino III and other officials from the previous administration to narcotics.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSP Sotto said it all. We are now recalling the letter of invitation sent to Advincula yesterday (Tuesday),\u201d Lacson said in a Twitter post.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNotices will be sent out for the cancellation of the committee hearing on Friday. Enough of this nonsense,\u201d Lacson added.<\/p>\n<p>He further added in a separate tweet: \u201cThe problem with asking Bikoy who are the people behind him is if we will believe him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lacson earlier set a congressional inquiry into Advincula\u2019s claims under the condition that he personally presents his sworn statement and evidence related to his accusations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; Senator Panfilo Lacson announced on Wednesday the cancellation of the Senate inquiry into the allegations made by Peter Joemel &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":207434,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-213354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-filane-mikee-cervantes","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213354","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213354"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":213355,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213354\/revisions\/213355"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}