Peter Joemel Advincula, who admitted being the hooded “Bikoy,” on Monday posted a P10,000 bail before the Quezon City Metropolitan Trial Court over the case of conspiracy to commit sedition filed against him.
Advincula was accompanied by his lawyer, Lorenzo “Larry” Gadon, when he arrived at Branch 138 yesterday afternoon.
He was charged with sedition as the man behind the “‹”Ang Totong Narcolist” series of videos linking President Rodrigo Duterte and his children to illegal drug activity.
Aside from Advincula, also charged before the same QC court were former Senator Antonio Trillanes, Fr. Albert Alejo, Fr. Flaviano Villanueva, film actor Joel Saracho, Boom Enriquez, Jonnel Sangalang, Eduardo Acierto and one “Monique.”
Gadon said that Advincula refused to be placed under the Department of Justice’s witness protection program but may agree to become a state witness against his co-accused.
“He [Advincula] does not want to be placed under the WPP [Witness Protection Program] as he finds it too restrictive, its like prison. But he is willing to be a state witness,” Gadon said in a message to reporters.
Last Friday, Judge Kristine Grace Suarez ordered the arrest of Advincula and the other co-respondents.
Villanueva and Alejo subsequently posted bail.
Advincula incriminated his co-accused in a plot to smear President Duterte and his family in a series of videos released during the campaign period last year.
The complaint alleged that Trillanes and his co-accused are involved in “circulating malicious and scurrilous libels and fabricating evidence against him and his immediate family members, making it appear that the president and his family are engaged in a drug trade syndicate, with no other purpose but to inflict an act of hate or revenge against the president and his immediate family members.”
The charges were approved by Prosecutor General Benedicto Malcontento on the recommendation of the panel of prosecutors led by Senior Assistant State Prosecutor Olivia Laroza-Torrevillas and Assistant
State Prosecutors Michael John Humarang and Gino S. Paolo Santiago. With PNA