MANILA – The Makati City Regional Trial Court (RTC) Branch 148 is close to issuing its verdict on the coup d’état case against Sen. Antonio Trillanes IV in relation to the 2003 Oakwood Mutiny.
Makati City police head Senior Superintendent Rogelio Simon said in a television interview that he was informed by Judge Andres Soriano that the latter is already in the “last stage of his work.”
“Judge Soriano said that he will inform us beforehand kung maglalabas ng decision,” Simon added.
He also said coordination with the police is important for the mobilization of forces, as most officers are deployed on an ordinary workday.
The Department of Justice has earlier requested before Soriano the issuance of a warrant of arrest and a hold departure order against Trillanes.
The Makati City RTC Branch 150 has issued earlier an arrest warrant and a hold departure order against the senator for his rebellion case in the 2007 Manila Peninsula siege.
Trillanes got arrested but was released after posting a P200,000 bail.
President Rodrigo Duterte signed Proclamation No. 572 on Aug. 31 declaring void from the beginning the amnesty granted to Trillanes.
The senator did not comply with the “minimum requirements to qualify under the amnesty proclamation,” according to Duterte.
The President also ordered the arrest of Trillanes “so that he can be recommitted to the detention facility where he had been incarcerated for him to stand trial for crimes he is charged with.”
Trillanes, however, has insisted that his amnesty petition went through the right process, based on the parameters set by then amnesty granter former president Benigno Aquino III./PN
