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Category: Rodrigo Duterte

Impeachment trial to open Duterte’s joint bank accounts with VP Sara for scrutiny

Published by Ellen on November 21, 2024
Former president Rodrigo Duterte grabs microphone and aims to hit former senator Antonio Trillanes IV with it during the Nov. 13 quadcom hearing,

The apoplectic reaction of Rodrigo Duterte during the Nov. 13 hearing of the House quad committee when former senator Antonio Trillanes IV presented some contents of the former president’s bank accounts in the Bank of the Philippine Islands is not surprising at all.

Since the news on those bank accounts of Duterte and his daughter, Vice President Sara Duterte, were first published on April 28, 2016, the former president’s reaction has ranged from lying to more lying to more lying.

In the course of his endless lying, sometimes his mind trips and he blurts out the truth, such as when he said during the quadcom hearing that it is not impossible for his bank accounts to now hold even P5 billion.

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Davao City’s ‘ghost employees’ early funders of Duterte’s EJKs

Published by Ellen on October 23, 2024


The House Quad Committee (Quadcom), which has uncovered gruesome information, in its investigation of extrajudicial killings (EJKs), is now into tracing the money trail that financed former president Rodrigo Duterte’s brutal war on drugs.

Quadcom co-chairs Reps. Bienvenido “Benny” Abante Jr. and Dan Fernandez said that the mega-panel composed of the Committees on Dangerous Drugs, Public Order and Safety, Human Rights, and Public Accounts, will seek the assistance of the Anti-Money Laundering Council (AMLC) in tracing the illicit transactions.

Former Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office General Manager Royina Garma, who also played a major role in Duterte’s bloody program, had given information on the rewards system which was patterned to Davao drug war template that she helped implement when she was a Station Commander in one of the police stations in Davao.

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Duterte’s attempt to use China card aborted by Chinese ships’ water-cannon act

Published by Ellen on August 13, 2023
Pres. Ferdinand Marcos receives former Pres. Rodrigo Duterte in Malacañang Aug. 2.

The attempt by former president Rodrigo Duterte to use the China card to gain a prominent role in the Marcos administration and protect himself from the International Criminal Court got aborted just when his cohorts in the Senate were about to launch it.

The embarrassing thing about the flop is that it was his benefactor, China, that ruined it. That was the water cannoning by Chinese ships of the Philippine boats bringing supplies to the Marines on Ayungin Shoal.

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