‘Bikoy’ set to post bail
by Jeffrey DamicogPeter Joemel Advincula alias “Bikoy” is set to post bail next week over the conspiracy to commit sedition case he is facing before the Quezon City Metropolitan Trial Court (MTC).
His legal counsel, lawyer Lorenzo “Larry” Gadon, made the assurance after QC MTC Branch 138 issued arrest warrants against Advincula and his co-accused including former Sen. Antonio Trillanes IV.
The recommended bail is pegged at P10,000 for each accused.
“Peter Advincula will voluntary surrender and would go to MTC QC on Monday or Tuesday to post bail,” Gadon said in a statement on Friday (Feb. 14).
In the meantime, Gadon won’t disclose where Advincula is. “Bikoy is in a safe house somewhere in the north as he just came from Baguio and La Trinidad to appear in the reading of a judgement in his case in La Trinidad which was dismissed.”
The Department of Justice (DOJ) filed the case last Monday (Feb. 10) after finding probable cause to indict 11 accused with conspiracy to commit sedition in connection with the “Ang Totoong Narcolist” video series.
Aside from Advincula and Trillanes, those named as accused are former Police Sr. Supt. Eduardo Acierto, Joel Saracho, Boom Enriquez, Yolanda V. Ong, Vicente Romano III, Fr. Albert E. Alejo, Fr. Flaviano Villanueva, Jonnel P. Sangalang, and a certain Monique.
The case stemmed from the “Ang Totoong Narcolist” video series, which was released online in April 2019 and featured “Bikoy”.
In the charge sheet, the defendants are accused of having committed conspiracy to commit sedition “by circulating malicious and scurrilous libels and fabricating evidence against him (President Duterte) 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 of the Philippines and his immediate family members.”