Former chief presidential legal counsel Salvador Panelo on Saturday slammed the findings of the House Quad Committee’s (QuadComm) probe into the previous administration’s war on drugs.
“The allegations made [against] these people are either coerced testimonies or based on hearsay, or both,” said Panelo, who also served as Palace spokesperson during the Duterte administration.
“They will never stand in court,” he added.
He said that the QuadComm’s hearings were “all political,” adding that they were “designed to destroy [former President Rodrigo] Duterte and his daughter [Vice President] Sara, so that the latter can be eliminated in the 2028 presidential race.”
Panelo issued the statement after QuadComm vice chairperson and Antipolo Representative Romeo Acop, at the conclusion of the House joint panel’s probe into the bloody anti-drug campaign, claimed that the former president is at the center of the criminal syndicate involving the illegal drug trade and other crimes.
Acop cited testimonies of resource persons during the joint panel’s 12 hearings.
GMA News Online requested comments from the QuadComm and Acop’s media communications team and will release them as soon as they are available.— VBL, GMA Integrated News
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