Tag: Senator Antonio Trillanes IV

Gordon unfazed over Trillanes’ plan to file a plunder case vs him; says Trillanes only “hungry for publicity”

(Eagle News) — Bring it on. This was what Senator Richard Gordon had to say to Senator Antonio Trillanes IV, who said he would file a plunder case against the Senate blue ribbon committee chair in connection with his alleged misuse of Red Cross funds. “There he goes again. He’s done it before, he’s gonna do it again. Let him file the suit. I’m gonna account for every centavo,” Gordon said in an interview over […]

Sara Duterte blasts “power-hungry” Tindig Pilipinas; says destabilization plot “as real as terrorism”

(Eagle News) — Davao Mayor Sara Duterte-Carpio on Sunday said the threat of destabilization was “as real as terrorism,” noting that information on the matter came from reliable sources, even “from inside the offices of the people identified with the opposition.” She also dismissed claims her father, President Rodrigo Duterte, was “insecure and paranoid,”  calling Tindig Pilipinas, the group that staged a rally recently against him, “power-hungry.” Key members of this group include opposition figures […]

Duterte critic Trillanes asked my father to support his 2016 vice presidential bid but was rejected — Sara Duterte

(Eagle News) — Senator Antonio Trillanes IV asked then-Davao Mayor and now President Rodrigo Duterte to support his bid for the vice presidency a year before he ran for the post in the 2016 elections. This is according to  the President’s daughter, Davao Mayor Sara Duterte-Carpio, who took to Facebook to challenge the senator who has been hurling accusations ranging from ill-gotten wealth to murder at her father and other family members. According to Carpio, at […]

Duterte names alleged source of supposed bank documents attached to Trillanes’ complaint vs him

(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte on Wednesday named the source of the supposed bank documents attached to Senator Antonio Trillanes’ complaint against him. Duterte said it was “Abad” of the Anti-Money Laundering Council who gave the documents to the senator, who then gave the same to Deputy Ombudsman for Mindanao Rodolfo Elman. Elman, Duterte said, then gave the same to Overall Deputy Ombudsman Arthur Carandang. Carandang, who said he has been given the go-signal […]

President Duterte: Trillanes closed bank accounts containing money “possibly used to destabilize gov’t” before signing waiver

(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte on Friday said Senator Antonio Trillanes IV closed his bank accounts and transferred the money–which he said was “possibly” used to “destabilize” the government— to other individuals before signing a waiver and going to Singapore to supposedly check those accounts. In an interview over state-run television, Duterte said Trillanes was able to close the accounts online at 10 p.m., on  September 8. Although the President did not say what these […]

AMLC denies giving report on Duterte family bank records to Ombudsman;Adds Trillanes complaint vs Duterte has “wrong, misleading” figures

(Eagle News) — The Anti-Money Laundering Council denied on Thursday that it had provided the Ombudsman with a report detailing the transactions of bank accounts President Rodrigo Duterte allegedly jointly owned with his children from 2006 to 2016. In making the denial, the AMLC effectively belied what  Deputy Ombudsman Melchor Carandang was reported as saying—that the anti-graft body received the report that was used for a fact-finding probe into the President’s family wealth from the […]

Faeldon files ethics complaint vs Trillanes

(Eagle News) — Former Customs Commissioner Nicanor Faeldon on Monday filed an ethics complaint against Senator Antonio Trillanes IV. “Idol pa naman kita,” Faeldon, who is detained at the Office of the Senate Sergeant at Arms after his surrender following being cited in contempt, said in a brief press conference. Faeldon was cited in contempt by the Senate for his refusal to attend Senate blue ribbon committee hearings on the P6.4-billion drug shipment that slipped […]

Trillanes files raps vs Mocha Uson over bank account claims

By Meanne Corvera Eagle News Service Senator Antonio Trillanes IV on Friday filed several charges against Presidential Communications Assistant Secretary Mocha Uson after she allegedly disseminated false information on social media to destroy his credibility. Trillanes filed three counts of libel under the Cybercrime Prevention Act against Uson, and took her to task for alleged grave misconduct, falsification of public documents, violation of the Anti-Graft and Corrupt Practices Act, and violation of the Code of […]

Faeldon to file ethics complaints vs Trillanes, Lacson on Monday

Lacson says it is Faeldon’s “right to waste bond paper and ink” (Eagle News) — Former Customs Commissioner Nicanor Faeldon will file ethics complaints against Senators Antonio Trillanes IV and Panfilo Lacson on Monday, his counsel said. In  a press conference on Friday, Atty. Martin Dino said Faeldon will ask the Senate’s Office of the Sergeant at Arms “to be allowed to personally file under guard” the complaints against the two senators, who have accused […]

Senate ethics committee finds Gordon complaint vs Trillanes “sufficient in form, substance”

By Meanne Corvera Eagle News Service The Senate committee on ethics has declared the complaint filed by Senator Richard Gordon against Senator Antonio Trillanes IV “sufficient in form and substance.” The ethics committee led by Senator Vicente Sotto III, also the Senate majority leader, gave Trillanes 10 days to respond to the allegations stated in the complaint, which Gordon filed after the former military man indirectly accused him of “badgering” a witness during a hearing […]

President Duterte lashes back at Trillanes; says it is the senator who has bank accounts outside the country

(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte has accused Senator Antonio Trillanes IV of owning bank accounts outside the country. “I’m coming out with Trillanes’ bank accounts all over,” the President said in his speech during the closing ceremony of the 26th Mindanao Business Conference in Cagayan de Oro. Duterte made the announcement after Trillanes accused his son, Paolo, and son-in-law Mans Carpio of owning more than P100 million each in each of their accounts, of […]

Davao Vice Mayor Duterte on Trillanes’ insistence that a photo of his supposed “dragon tattoo” be taken: “No way”

(Eagle News) — “No way.” This was what Davao Vice Mayor Paolo Duterte retorted when Senator Antonio Trillanes insisted that a photograph of the presidential son’s supposed “dragon tattoo” be taken. Trillanes had said he wanted a picture of the supposed tattoo on the presidential son’s back so this could be sent to the United States Drug Enforcement Agency and could be “decoded.” “We can ask the sergeant at arms to accompany you. Bigay natin […]