A Gulfstream G550 airplane believed to hold former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte is seen after touchdown at Rotterdam The Hague Airport, following Dutertre’s arrest on an Worldwide Prison Courtroom warrant tied to his lethal crackdown on medication, on March 12, 2025. The 79-year-old faces a cost of “the crime in opposition to humanity of homicide”, based on the ICC, for a crackdown that rights teams estimate killed tens of hundreds of largely poor males, typically with out proof they had been linked to medication. —Photograph by John Thysa | Agence France-Presse
MANILA, Philippines — The Workplace of the President (OP) paid for the chartered airplane that introduced former President Rodrigo Duterte to The Hague within the Netherlands.
Inside Secretary Jonvic Remulla confirmed this info on Thursday.
“The airplane is chartered by the Workplace of the President. We introduced him straight to the Netherlands,” Remulla mentioned in an interview on ANC’s ‘Headstart.’
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When requested how a lot the OP paid for the flight and who the proprietor of the jet is, Remulla informed INQUIRER.internet, “All I do know is that it’s a leased airplane for [the] use of the president. It’s primarily based on usable flying hours.”
“The choice solely got here up at 10 a.m. Tuesday. I didn’t ask anymore about different particulars. At the moment, PRRD (President Rodrigo Roa Duterte) had simply landed,” he mentioned in a Viber message.
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Crimes in opposition to humanity
Duterte was arrested on Tuesday primarily based on an Worldwide Prison Courtroom (ICC) warrant in opposition to him for alleged crimes in opposition to humanity supposedly dedicated throughout his administration’s conflict on unlawful medication.
He was flown out of Villamor Air Base in Pasay Metropolis on Tuesday night aboard a Gulfstream jet airplane with the tail quantity RP-C5219.
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Possession of the airplane had been the topic of hypothesis on-line because it was used to move Duterte to The Hague.
Ako Bicol Occasion-list Rep. Elizaldy Co denied suspicions on social media that he owned the Gulfstream jet.
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