DoJ seeks hold order vs Trillanes from Davao court

THE DEPARTMENT of Justice (DoJ) has asked a Davao City Court to issue a holddeparture order (HDO) against Sen. Antonio F. Trillanes IV, Justice Secretary Menardo I. Guevarra said. The motion to ban the opposition senator from leaving the country is set for hearing on Dec. 7, Friday, he added. Mr. Trillanes is facing libel complaints in Davao City filed last Sept. 6 by presidential son and former vice-mayor Paolo Z. Duterte and his brother-in-law, Manases R. Carpio, husband of Mayor Sara Duterte-Carpio. For his rebellion case over the 2007 Manila Peninsula siege, Judge Elmo M. Alameda of Makati City RTC Branch 150 granted the senator’s motion to lift the HDO on Nov. 29, allowing him to attend various meetings and invitations abroad from Dec. 11 to Jan. 12, and from Jan. 27 to Feb. 10, 2019. Mr. Guevarra denied that the HDO requests against Mr. Trillanes in other courts have any connection with the order of the Makati Court. “(T)hese are not related at all. There are different complainants here and they are pending in other courts. And just like in any case where the jurisdiction belongs to the regional trial court, it is the right of and prerogative of the prosecution to ask for the issuance of an HDO,” he said. —

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