POLITICS-EJK-DRUG WAR: NEW YORK – Billionaire Filipino American Loida Nicolas-Lewis dares Duterte to divulge tapped call
Lewis in a social media post said since Mr. Duterte “has revived his accusations with the same bogus, fake news, I want him to release the so-called telephone conversation I supposedly had regarding the ICC case to investigate him.”
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She added that her demand to make public the tapped communications which Mr. Duterte said was provided to him by a third country will “once and for all” allow the truth to be known “and he should then stop these false allegations against me.”
Open letter to Rody
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She said in her open letter to Mr. Duterte that any “wiretapped conversation” given to you by “a foreign country” is bogus and made up.
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“I have already stated this before, and I will state it again: I am not in any way involved in the International Criminal Court’s (ICC) decision to investigate you or the extrajudicial killings in the Philippines,” she wrote.
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She claimed not knowing about the ICC case “until I read about it on the Internet.”
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“So please, kindly release to the media my so-called telephone conversation with ICC that never happened,” she said.
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“I am just one of many Filipinos who believes that murder without due process on suspicion of drug dealing is reprehensible and goes against the laws of both God and man,” she concluded.
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Lewis’ link to ICC
possible — Roque
Last Thursday, Presidential spokesman Harry Roque said Lewis is capable of conspiring with the Hague-based court because “she’s rich.”
Duterte recently stated he will release a transcript of the wiretapped phone conversation involving Lewis.
Roque said while he is not privy to the information that Duterte received regarding Lewis, he cannot discount the possibility that she had a hand in the ICC move.
“The ICC accepts donations from private persons and organizations and I do know that particularly on the reparation fund… the ICC welcomes donations from everyone,” Roque said.
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Mr. Duterte last week announced the country’s withdrawal from the Rome Statute, the ICC’s founding treaty, saying that the tribunal was discourteous for acting on a complaint of crimes against humanity from lawyer Jude Sabio who is a known pawn of his political nemesis Sen. Antonio Trillanes IV.
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Teodoro Locsin, the Philippines’ permanent representative to the UN, later sent a letter notifying United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres of the government’s decision to leave as a member of the ICC.
Aside from Lewis, Duterte also claimed he has information against ICC prosecutor Fatou Bensouda because her phone was also allegedly tapped. / Written by Tribne Wires / Saturday, 24 March 2018 00:00 / / All photographs, news, editorials, opinions, information, data, others have been taken from the Internet ..aseanews.net | [email protected] / For comments, Email to : Aseanews.Net | [email protected] | Contributor:-
