MANILA – The Department of Justice (DOJ) summoned former senator Antonio Trillanes IV and three others over a kidnapping with serious illegal detention complaint.
Trillanes, lawyer Jude Sabio, Jesuit priest Albert Alejo and a certain “Sister Ling” of the Convent of the Cannussian Sisters were summoned to appear in the DOJ preliminary investigation on Oct. 11.
The respondents were charged by a certain Guillermina Barrido alias “Guillermina Arcillas,” a Davao-based businesswoman, for allegedly forcing her to implicate President Rodrigo Duterte in the illegal drug trade.
According to Barrido, the four respondents detained her for two weeks in Dec. 2016 to sign a prepared affidavit containing serious allegations against Duterte and his family.
These allegations supposedly included murder, corruption, existence of the Davao death squad, and illegal drugs, according to the referral letter of the Philippine National Police-Criminal Investigation and Detection Group.
In her supplemental affidavit dated Aug. 5, 2019, Barrido said Alejo provided her with a plane ticket from General Santos City to Manila on Dec. 6, 2016.
Alejo and Sabio allegedly fetched her at the airport and brought her to two convents in Makati and Quezon City from Dec. 6 to 21, 2016 where Sister Ling, Alejo and Trillanes supposedly prevented her from leaving.
Trillanes, a staunch critic of Duterte, earlier denied the allegations, saying the kidnapping case against him and three others were pure “harassment.”/PN
