{"id":1114692,"date":"2019-05-07T07:26:17","date_gmt":"2019-05-06T23:26:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsinfo.inquirer.net\/?p=1114692"},"modified":"2019-05-07T01:51:13","modified_gmt":"2019-05-06T17:51:13","slug":"bikoy-surfaces-at-ibp-office-claims-his-life-is-in-danger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsinfo.inquirer.net\/1114692\/bikoy-surfaces-at-ibp-office-claims-his-life-is-in-danger","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Bikoy\u2019 surfaces at IBP office, claims his life is in danger"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\u2018Bikoy\u2019<\/a>

ON DANGEROUS GROUNDPeter Joemel Advincula reads his statement at the Integrated Bar of the Philippines multipurpose hall in Pasig City. He said threats to his life and a desire to clear his conscience had driven him to come forward. \u2014EDWIN BACASMAS<\/p><\/div>\n

MANILA, Philippines \u2014 A former marketing executive faced journalists on Monday, claiming he was \u201cBikoy,\u201d the hooded man in a series of videos on YouTube who linked members of President Rodrigo Duterte\u2019s family to the illegal drug trade, and that he came out of hiding because his life was in danger.<\/p>\n

Peter Joemel Advincula appeared in a news conference at the Integrated Bar of the Philippines (IBP) office in Pasig City just as the Department of Justice (DOJ) was announcing it would bring charges of inciting to sedition and cyberlibel against Rodel Jayme, who owned the YouTube channel through which the Bikoy videos were propagated on the internet.<\/p>\n

Advincula, who claimed he had done time for fraud, said threats to his life and a desire to clear his conscience had driven him to come forward.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have seen how drugs have destroyed families, and I was once part of spreading these as a member of a syndicate,\u201d Advincula said.<\/p>\n

No politics involved<\/strong><\/p>\n

He read from a two-page statement, denying links to the opposition coalition Otso Diretso in next Monday\u2019s midterm elections or any other political party, journalists and news organizations, and Jayme, who was arrested last week after a National Bureau of Investigation examination of his computer led to his discovery as the owner of the metrobalita.net website to which the Bikoy videos were uploaded.<\/p>\n

Malaca\u00f1ang had tried to link Bikoy to a destabilization plot against Mr. Duterte allegedly hatched by certain journalists, online news sites and activist lawyers.<\/p>\n

Advincula repeated his allegations in the videos that Mr. Duterte\u2019s son Paolo Duterte, son-in-law Manases Carpio, and former special presidential assistant Christopher \u201cBong\u201d Go were members of an illegal drug syndicate who had amassed millions in narcomoney.<\/p>\n

He said he was ready to face a Senate investigation \u201cto prove everything I have put forth in the video series.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAs long as the family and allies of President Duterte are involved in drug syndicates, drugs will continue to flood our country,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cJoin me in this fight. This is the true war on drugs,\u201d Advincula said before abruptly leaving.<\/p>\n

He took no questions from reporters.<\/p>\n

Accompanied by nuns<\/strong><\/p>\n

Lawyer June Ambrosio, director of the IBP National Center for Legal Aid, said Advincula came to her office for legal assistance on Monday morning accompanied by a group of nuns.<\/p>\n

Ambrosio said she did not know which religious community the nuns represented.<\/p>\n

IBP national president Abdiel Fajardo said the center had not yet accepted Advincula as a client, as the man who claimed he was Bikoy had to pass customary tests to determine whether he had the means to hire a lawyer and to look into the merits of his case.<\/p>\n

In his statement, Advincula said he was hoping the IBP would assist him in preparing an affidavit and filing charges against Go, Carpio \u2014 who is married to Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte \u2014 and Paolo Duterte, a former vice mayor of Davao.<\/p>\n

Advincula said he had worked as a marketing executive at a company in Bicol region called Vita Plus.<\/p>\n

He said his boss, Tess Ra\u00f1ola, assigned him to the preparation of internal documents and that in February 2010, she linked him up with a drug ring in the region.<\/p>\n

Tattoo on the back<\/strong><\/p>\n

He said he was also tasked with scanning codes that represented bank account numbers and that were tattooed onto the backs of syndicate members.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere were several times where I myself scanned the code on the tattoo of Bong Go, which is why I said he and Paolo Duterte had a dragon tattoo,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Both Go and Paolo Duterte have denied they have dragon tattoos on their back.<\/p>\n

Ra\u00f1ola filed the complaint with the NBI that led to the arrest of Jayme.<\/p>\n

Ra\u00f1ola was mentioned in the Bikoy videos. At the NBI on Friday, she said she was \u201cjust an ordinary person, mother and widow.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI could not be involved in a drug syndicate because I have no idea about politics. I don\u2019t know anyone and I am not a supporter for any candidate,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Advincula said he was jailed in 2012 for estafa involving documents he had signed at Vita Plus, but was released in early 2016 for good behavior.<\/p>\n

Death threats<\/strong><\/p>\n

He said he found a new job, which he did not specify, but ran into Go at a company affair.<\/p>\n

After that encounter with Go, he said he began to get threats to his life.<\/p>\n

He said he went into hiding in August 2018 after leaving the syndicate.<\/p>\n

Before Advincula surfaced, the DOJ had questioned Bikoy\u2019s credibility and refused to commit to an investigation of his claims in the videos.<\/p>\n

On Monday, Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra dared Advincula to file charges with the NBI if he had evidence against the people he mentioned in the videos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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