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Inquiries on the drug war were held by the House of Representatives' Quad Committee and the Senate Blue Ribbon sub-committee in October 2024. Duterte attended the Senate inquiry and transcripts from the hearings was later submitted to the ICC by Duterte's staunch critic, former Senator Antonio Trillanes. [24] [25]
In accordance with his campaign promise, President Rodrigo Duterte initiated the war on drugs shortly after he took office on June 30, 2016. [9] [10] As of July 26, 2017, the Philippine Information Agency reported 68,000 anti-drug operations which resulted in around 97,000 arrests, 1.3 million surrenders, and around 3,500 drug personalities killed in legitimate police operations. [11]
Meanwhile, in March, Quiboloy was ordered arrested by the Senate for his refusal to attend the hearings, [26] [27] and went into hiding thereafter. [29] Former president Rodrigo Duterte, Quiboloy's close ally which would be the KOJC property administrator, [29] advised him to "just get yourself arrested" or risk facing arrest. [30]
Duterte’s explosive break with the president is an opportunity for her to back her own candidates, and present herself as an alternative to a government which has lost popularity over the ...
Rodrigo Duterte told the hearings he was solely responsible for the bloody crackdown and willing to be go on trial. (Reporting by Neil Jerome Morales and Mikhail Flores; Editing by Martin Petty)
On May 25, Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo said that Trillanes may soon face another imprisonment following Advincula's tagging of the latter as the mastermind of producing the videos. [42] During a Senate hearing on May 27, the Philippine National Police (PNP) began investigating Advincula's claims as well as the alleged involvement ...
The investigation found out that Lin Wei Xiong was the Pharmally's financial manager who was in Dubai and did not appear in the senate hearings. Chairman Huang said that Lin's role was to act as guarantor to suppliers in Yang's behalf. Rose Lin, the financial manager's wife made appearances to the Senate hearing instead.
A Senate staffer is out of a job after the publication of a video appearing to show two men having sex in a Senate hearing room. Police are “looking into” the video, which was obtained and ...