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 Court docket warrant tied to his lethal crackdown on medication, on March 12, 2025. The 79-year-old faces a cost of “the crime towards humanity of homicide”, in line with the ICC, for a crackdown that rights teams estimate killed tens of 1000’s of principally poor males, typically with out proof they had been linked to medication. —Picture 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 instructed INQUIRER.internet, “All I do know is that it’s a leased airplane for [the] use of the president. It’s based mostly 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 towards humanity
Duterte was arrested on Tuesday based mostly on an Worldwide Prison Court docket (ICC) warrant towards him for alleged crimes towards humanity supposedly dedicated throughout his administration’s warfare 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 Get together-list Rep. Elizaldy Co denied suspicions on social media that he owned the Gulfstream jet.
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