(UPDATES) FORMER senator Antonio Trillanes IV on Wednesday filed a drug smuggling case against Davao City 1st District Rep. Paolo Duterte, son of former president Rodrigo Duterte, and Manases Carpio, husband of Vice President Sara Duterte.
Duterte expressed confidence that he would be cleared of the drug smuggling accusation against him.
“I have always maintained my innocence, and I am confident that the judicial process will clear my name,” he said in a statement.
Former Senator Sonny Trillanes filed drug smuggling charges against Cong. Pulong Duterte, Atty. Mans Carpio, and former BOC Commissioner Nicanor Faeldon among others regarding the P6.4 billion drug shipment that was seized in 2017, at the Department of Justice in Manila on Wednesday, July 31, 2024. PHOTO BVY RENE H. DILAN
In a post on X, Trillanes said that apart from Duterte and Carpio, Charlie Tan, Nicanor Faeldon and “Tita Nanie” Cabatu-Coronacion were named in the suit linking them to a shipment of 602 kilos of crystal methamphetamine or shabu, worth over P6 billion, seized in 2017.
Faeldon was a former Bureau of Corrections director-general and Bureau of Customs commissioner during the Duterte administration.
Also named in the suit were Allen Capuyao, who served as chairman of the National Commission on Indigenous Peoples until last year, former Bureau of Customs Investigation and Intelligence Service chief Neil Estrella and Davao City Councilor Nilo Abellera Jr.
Estrella resigned in 2017 over the alleged smuggling.
The case accused Duterte and the others of violating Section 4 of Republic Act (RA) 9165 or the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002.
In 2017, during a Senate hearing, former Davao police officer Arthur Lascañas linked Duterte, who was then a vice mayor of Davao City, as well as Carpio, to the shipment of drugs that came from China.
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