(Eagle News) — Former Customs Commissioner Nicanor Faeldon on Monday filed an ethics complaint against Senator Antonio Trillanes IV.
“Idol pa naman kita,” Faeldon, who is detained at the Office of the Senate Sergeant at Arms after his surrender following being cited in contempt, said in a brief press conference.
Faeldon was cited in contempt by the Senate for his refusal to attend Senate blue ribbon committee hearings on the P6.4-billion drug shipment that slipped through the Customs bureau in May, and on corruption in the bureau.
Jose Diño Jr., his lawyer, said the case was in connection with the malicious allegations hurled by the senator against his client.
Earlier, Trillanes said Faeldon was at the heart of the P6.4-billion drug shipment controversy.
In a statement, Faeldon also challenged Trillanes to prove his allegations that the former Customs commissioner was the one the so-called Davao Group would call if a shipment was not released, and that he was the link to the so-called group allegedly to Paolo Duterte, the presidential son.
“It is high time that we stopped chasing the bully around the school yard..My ethics complaint will compel Trillanes to put up or shut up,” Faeldon said.
Apart from asking the ethics committee to take to task Trillanes for supposed “unparliamentary and improper conduct as a senator of the Philippines,” Faledon asked the panel to suspend the senator from office “at the very least,” or expel him from office.
Faeldon has also filed an ethics complaint against Senator Panfilo Lacson, who accused him of receiving a P100 million “pasalubong” as Customs chief.