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ICC rejects Prosecution request for Duterte’s keys, allows access to other items

Published by Ellen on July 4, 2026

The International Criminal Court Trial Chamber III has rejected the request of the Prosecution for the keys taken from former president Rodrigo Duterte when he was arrested and brought to The Hague on March 12 last year, stating that access to them is “neither necessary nor proportionate.“

In its decision, the Chamber said that the Prosecution failed to state the relevance of the keys to the proceedings on the charge of crimes against humanity that Duterte is facing, noting that it did “not specify to what items the keys relate to, nor how such items may provide evidence that are necessary for the investigation.”

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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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Can 3 high-ranking PNP officials get out of ICC ‘suspects’ list?

Published by Ellen on July 27, 2024


What will the Philippine National Police (PNP) do with the three high-ranking officers who were named as suspects in the ongoing probe by the International Criminal Court (ICC) of former president Rodrigo Duterte’s war on drugs?

The three are: Major General Romeo Caramat Jr., former chief of the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) and currently the acting area commander of Luzon; retired colonel Edilberto Leonardo, identified in the document as former commissioner of the National Police Commission (the Napolcom’s website still lists him as a commissioner); Brig. Gen. Eleazar Matta, identified by the ICC as former PNP chief intelligence officer (He is currently the director of the PNP-Drug Enforcement Group.).

The three police officers were named, together with Sen. Ronald “Bato” Dela Rosa and former PNP chief Oscar Albayalde, in a four-page confidential document dated July 3, sent through the Philippine Embassy in The Hague and released to the media on July 25 by former senator Antonio Trillanes IV, one of the earliest complainants to the ICC against Duterte’s brutal drug war.

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