Govt to review

then of course, their amnesties will be revoked,” he said.

The Department of Justice (DoJ) said it had no role in the review of Trillanes’ amnesty.

The statement came in reaction to the senator saying that Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra is “incompetent” for showing “the low quality of his legal abilities and legal skills.”

“The DoJ was not involved at all in the review of his amnesty,” Guevarra said in a text message.

He questioned Trillanes’ admission of guilt and the redaction of public statements, which were “inconsistent” with his admission of guilt.

the Aquino administration over their participation in the Oakwood Mutiny in 2003, the Marines stand-off in 2006 and the Manila Peninsula siege in 2007.

All uprisings were protests against then-President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and the supposed corruption in the government at the time.

Trillanes ran for senator and won in the

2007 elections.

On Wednesday, he showed a news clip of him in 2011 submitting his application for amnesty.

Palace spokesman Harry Roque Jr., however,

“First of all, I do not know if it was received by the government. It is needed that, the application is not only shown, but there was a “received application” [stamp] there,” Roque told dzRH radio.

“The video, it does not prove anything, because what is important is the document itself. Another thing is, what is written in the document if there is really a document, if he really admitted to the crime of coup d’etat that I think never really happened,” he said.

Aside from Trillanes, among those who applied were retired Marine colonel Ariel Querubin, Magdalo party-list Rep. Gary Alejano, former Metro Manila Development Authority chairman Danilo - trator Nicanor Faeldon.

Faeldon resigned from his post as Customs commissioner last year over the entry of P6.4-billion worth of shabu from China.

He, however, was reinstalled by Duterte in the Cabinet.