PRESIDENT Rodrigo Duterte’s eldest son Paolo Duterte told Senator Antonio Trillanes IV to prove in court that he was involved in the P6.4-billion drug smuggling case on Monday.
“Dakdak na naman (You’re all talk). See you in court!,” he responded after Trillanes issued a statement on Sunday, September 23, saying he has a plan to have the younger Duterte as a hostile witness in a Senate drug-smuggling probe.
“I welcome the filing of the libel case because it will be an opportunity to call Polong as a hostile witness, so he would be compelled to show his tattoo on his back to prove that he is a member of a Chinese triad drug syndicate,” Trillanes said in his statement.
“It would also be an opportunity for me to have his bank accounts subpoenaed,” he added.
The libel case he mentioned refers to the one Paolo filed on Wednesday, September 19, after after the opposition senator linked him to P6.4 billion-worth of shabu (methamphetamine) that slipped through the Bureau of Customs last year.
Paolo, in his complaint, said Trillanes described him and his father of being “illegal drug smugglers.”
He has since negated this claim made by Trillanes.
“Evidently, it was intended to malign, destroy and kill my good name and reputation, locally, nationally and internationally. This is especially so as I am the eldest son of our sitting president,” the former Davao City vice mayor said.
