Where could former senator
Antonio Trillanes IV be?
His former ally embattled
Atty. Jude Sabio yesterday just withdres the complaint he personally filed
before the International Criminal Court (ICC) against President Rodrigo Roa
Duterte on the alleged lapses in the country's ongoing relentless anti-illegal
drug campaign.
One of the reasons
cited is the alleged inability of his principals to settle fees due for his
legal services, Sabio, in a 28-page pleading asked ICC Prosecutor Fatou
Bensouda to strike out his name from the communications sent to the
international body which is seeking an inquiry.
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| Atty. Jude Sabio and President Rodrigo Roa Duterte (photo credit to owner) |
"I would be
given a pittance when they needed me for the political propaganda, and then
later I would be told that there was no more budget due to financial
constraints. It was a pattern that was all too obvious to me, which made me so
skeptical about their engagement of me for alias Bikoy," Sabio said in a
letter.
Sabio and opposition
senator had issues regarding the legal fees for the ICC, he also said that
Trillanes also approached him to be the counsel for Peter Joemel
"Bikoy" Advincula but feared he would not be sufficiently compensated
for his legal services as well.
"For if push
came to shove, and if our discussion came to the next level, I would have
charged them so many millions of pesos that they would find it impossible to
engage me as lawyer for alias Bikoy. Precisely, I did not want a repeat of what
had happened to me," Sabio said in the document forwarded to journalists
by Lorenzo Gadon.
Advincula had
initially implicated the Presidential family
in the so called “Ang Totoong Narcolist videos” but has since retracted
from his revelations and has since revealed that it was the opposition who told him to make
the revelations as against the family of the President.
"Madame
Prosecutor, in light of all these and under the circumstances obtaining, I am
left with no choice but to formally withdraw from your office the communication
that I filed way back on 24 April 2017. I fervently request that it be expunged
or erased from the record, and that it should not be used in any way in the
ongoing preliminary examination. I also fervently request that the legal matter
pending with your office in relation to the war on drugs in the Philippines
should be set aside and thrashed for being just a part of the political
propaganda of Senator Trillanes, Senator de Lima and their LP (Liberal
Party)-led opposition of which I do not wish to be a part," he added.
Former
Senator Trillanes said he was giving PHP50,000 to PHP100,000 to Atty. Sabio
from late 2016 to June 2019 but insists the latter's engagement was pro bono.
Last
February 2018, the ICC launched a preliminary examination to determine if it
will continue with a formal investigation into the complaints against President
Rodrigo Roa Duterte.
The Philippines has
since withdrew its membership from the ICC and has taken effect last March 2019.
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