MANILA – Sen. Antonio Trillanes IV was not stopping President Rodrigo Duterte from looking into his parents’ alleged business transactions with the Philippine Navy.
Trillanes was willing to get jailed – even in Duterte’s home city of Davao – if the investigation finds anything illegal.
“I welcome Duterte’s statement on probing supposed transactions of my deceased father (PMA Class ’59, retired in 1988 and died in 1998) and my 84-year-old mother,” the senator said in a statement released Tuesday.
“In fact, I’ll raise the ante,” said Trillanes, one of the fierce critics of the President. “If he (Duterte) finds anything anomalous, again, I would voluntarily walk into any detention facility, kahit sa Davao pa.”
A court has ordered Trillanes arrested over rebellion charges in relation to the 2011 Manila Peninsula siege but the senator has posted bail.
Duterte has accused Trillanes’ mother, Estelita, of making supply transactions with the Philippine Navy when Trillanes and his father were still in the Armed Forces.
At the groundbreaking of the Davao City Bulk Water Supply Project on Monday evening, Duterte said in a speech that the government was “investigating quietly” the supposed deals made by Trillanes’ parents.
“We are looking into the paper[s]. You know that. We are investigating quietly iyong mga deals sa panahon ng tatay pati iyong involved, iyong nanay. And he [Trillanes] can be very sure na lalabas lahat iyan,” the President said.
The investigation was Duterte’s latest move against Trillanes after revoking the amnesty granted to the latter by then President Benigno Aquino III./PN
