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Trillanes challenges Paolo Duterte to show tattoo: 'Ang dami mo pang arte'

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<figure class="op-interactive"><div id="IVS_ABS_Body_Video_1_Container"> <ivs-player id="IVS_ABS_Body_Video_1" data-ivs-spid="3001339" data-ivs-key="e8c22c015ca9eafa76f1e3edfa03c603" data-ivs-vid="1386920" data-ivs-floating="1"></ivs-player> <script src="https://player.ivideosmart.com/ivsplayer/v4/dist/js/iframe-parent.js"></script> <script src="https://player.ivideosmart.com/ivsplayer/v4/dist/js/loader.js"></script> </div></figure><div class="iwantbar">Watch more in <a href="//www.iwantv.com.ph/">iWantv</a> or <a href="//tfc.tv/">TFC.tv</a></div><p>MANILA<strong> (UPDATE) </strong>- Opposition Sen. Antonio Trillanes IV rejected Friday accusations of the President&#x27;s son, Paolo Duterte, that he is behind 2 viral videos that supposedly links Duterte to the illegal drug trade. </p><ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/04/04/19/paolo-duterte-says-trillanes-behind-video-linking-him-to-drugs">Paolo Duterte says Trillanes behind video linking him to drugs</a></li></ul><p>In a statement, Trillanes congratulated the people behind the videos that allegedly linked the Duterte family to illegal drugs. &quot;Having said that, I really wish I was part of the making of the videos so I could relish these moments but sadly I am not,&quot; he said. </p><p>&quot;Anu&#x27;t ano pa man, hindi talaga natutulog ang Diyos,&quot; he added.</p><p>He again criticized President Duterte, saying the truth &quot;has finally come to haunt you.&quot; He also challenged the President to sign a bank secrecy waiver to prove he is not corrupt.</p><p>He also renewed his challenge to the President&#x27;s son to show his back tattoo. &quot;Ikaw naman Polong, ipakita mo na lang ang likod mo, ang dami mo pang arte,&quot; he said. </p><ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/09/07/17/paolo-dutertes-back-tattoo-proves-hes-part-of-triad-trillanes">Paolo Duterte&#x27;s back tattoo proves he&#x27;s part of &#x27;triad&#x27;: Trillanes</a></li></ul><p>In the video uploaded on YouTube, a certain &quot;Bikoy&quot;, allegedly a former member of a drug syndicate, claimed he had records of &quot;tara&quot; or grease money allegedly deposited into the accounts of drug lords with the code names &quot;POLODELTA-TSG01&quot; and &quot;ALPHA TIERRA-0029.&quot;</p><p>He said the tara records started in the year 2010. </p><p>It said the &quot;POLODELTA-TSG01&quot; accounts allegedly belong to former vice mayor Paolo Duterte while the &quot;ALPHA TIERRA-0029&quot; accounts allegedly belong to Agriculture Assistant Secretary Waldo Carpio, a sibling of Manases Carpio who is the President&#x27;s son-in-law and husband of Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte.</p><p>The nearly 7-minute clip&#x27;s narrator claimed P170 million and P210 million were transferred to Paolo Duterte&#x27;s purported account under an international bank in 2018. </p><p>In the video, Bikoy said he personally saw Paolo’s dragon tattoo which supposedly bears the alphanumeric code used by the former vice mayor in his tara.</p><p>The video narrator then challenged Paolo to show his tattoo once and for all.</p><p>Trillanes earlier accused the younger Duterte and his brother-in-law Manases Carpio of involvement in drug smuggling. </p><p>They faced off in a Senate hearing in 2017, where Trillanes asked Duterte to show his back tattoo, allegedly of a &quot;colored and dragon-like figure,&quot; but the vice mayor refused, invoking his right to privacy.</p><figure class="op-interactive"><iframe height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/itXM3gS5PJY?enablejsapi=1" width="560"></iframe></figure><div class="iwantbar">Watch more in <a href="//www.iwantv.com.ph/">iWantv</a> or <a href="//tfc.tv/">TFC.tv</a></div><p>The senator, a long-time critic of the President, said he got the &quot;intelligence information&quot; that the younger Duterte was part of a drug triad from a foreign source he did not name.</p><p>The former vice mayor has sued Trillanes for libel over the allegations. </p><p>In a statement, Paolo Duterte again refused to show his back tattoo. </p><p>“I will not show the tattoo on my back and make things easier for Mr. Trillanes. Instead, I dare him and everyone behind the stupid and empty video exposé to back their claims against me,&quot; he said. </p><p>The President&#x27;s son is running for Representative of Davao City&#x27;s first district in May&#x27;s midterm elections.</p><p>President Duterte has also <a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/04/04/19/duterte-denies-paolos-involvement-in-drug-trade">denied </a>that his eldest son Paolo is involved in the illegal drug trade, saying his political enemies are behind the viral video. </p><p>“Well, that is a propaganda that has been repeated all the time. Alam mo --- alam ko propaganda na ‘yan. I was told. Eh pabalik-balik na ‘yang… I assure you, we are not into it,” Duterte said in an chance interview at the sidelines of the annual convention of the League of Prosecutors in Puerto Princesa City.<br/> <br/>He also tagged one of the supposed purveyors of the video, whom he did not name, as &quot;gay&quot;.</p><p>“Kaya sabi ko kayong mga bakla… I do not have to give the name. Iyan sa mga critics ko tanungin ninyo kung sino at alam ninyo kung sino siya,” he said.<br/> </p>

<p>MANILA (UPDATE) - Opposition Sen. Antonio Trillanes IV rejected Friday accusations of the President's son, Paolo Duterte, that he is behind 2 viral videos that supposedly links Duterte to the illegal drug trade. </p>

MANILA (UPDATE) - Opposition Sen. Antonio Trillanes IV rejected Friday accusations of the President's son, Paolo Duterte, that he is behind 2 viral videos that supposedly links Duterte to the illegal drug trade.