After Makati RTC’s denial, DOJ seeks travel ban vs Trillanes in other courts
MANILA — Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra said the Department of Justice has filed separate motions before the other courts seeking travel ban against Sen. Antonio Trillanes IV after a Makati court allowed him to travel abroad later this month and on January.
Makati Regional Trial Court Branch 150 Presiding Judge Elmo Alameda for speaking engagements in the United States and Europe.
The DOJ chief said that he is not certain on the number of motions for the issuance of a hold departure order against the senator that was filed, but he stressed that this move is separate from a Makati court’s order that allowed the senator to leave the country to travel to United States and Europe.
“It just so happens that there are other cases pending against Sen. Trillanes. Some for inciting to sedition and some for libel,” Guevarra said.
Trillanes is facing an inciting to sedition complaint before a Pasay court, while a libel case was filed against him at a Davao court.
The DOJ has already sought for the reversal of the court’s order that temporary lifted the hold departure order against the senator. The court set a hearing on the government's motion for reconsideration on Friday, December 13.
The Justice secretary also maintained that it is within the prerogative of the state prosecutors to file a motion for the issuance of a HDO.