(Eagle News)– Former Davao Vice Mayor Paolo Duterte on Wednesday, Sept. 19, filed two new libel cases against Senator Antonio Trillanes IV.
The cases filed before the Davao Prosecutors’ Office stem from Trillanes’ allegations in media the presidential son was involved in the P6.4-billion shabu shipment.
Rainer Madrid, Duterte’s lawyer, said Trillanes had called his client a drug lord in an interview over radio dzmm on June 6 and over CNN Philippines on June 14.
Madrid said the cases were filed only now because Duterte had wanted an investigation first.
Trillanes is facing a separate libel case filed by the presidential son and lawyer Manases Carpio, the President’s son-in-law, over the senator’s interview over DYAB Cebu teleradyo on Sept. 8, 2017.
In that interview, Trillanes allegedly accused Carpio and the former Davao vice mayor of extortion from companies regulated by the Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board, Uber, among others.
This case was apart from the P6.6-million suit against Trillanes that is now pending before a Davao court.
Trillanes has been holed up in the Senate since early September, after news of Proclamation No. 572 that declared the amnesty granted to him for the Oakwood mutiny and the Peninsula Manila siege in 2003 and 2007, respectively, void ab initio broke.
