By Hannah Torregoza A defiant Sen. Antonio Trillanes IV on Sunday said he is looking forward to the start of the libel case filed against him by presidential son Paolo “Polong” Duterte as this would be his chance to prove his own allegations against the former Davao vice mayor’s involvement in the illegal drug trade and the Duterte family’s questionable wealth. Former Davao City Vice Mayor Paolo Duterte (left), and Senator Antonio Trillanes (MANILA BULLETIN) “I welcome the filing of the libel case because it will be an opportunity to call Polong as a hostile witness, so he would be compelled to show his tattoo on his back to prove that he is a member of a Chinese triad drug syndicate,” Trillanes said in a statement. “It would also be an opportunity for me to have his bank accounts subpoenaed,” the senator said. It was Trillanes, a long-time critic of President Rodrigo Duterte, who divulged that Duterte’s son has a “colored and dragon-like figure” tattoo on his back that proves he is a member of a “triad” or an international crime syndicate. Trillanes had dared the former vice mayor to show his tattoo during a Senate investigation into the P6.4-billion shabu shipment from China that slipped past the Bureau of Customs (BOC) scrutiny. This was after a Customs fixer, Mark Taguba, implicated Duterte’s son in the supposed “Davao group” that allegedly helped facilitate the entry of the contraband at the BOC. The young Duterte, who was present during the hearing together with his brother-in-law, Atty. Mans Carpio—husband of Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte-Carpio—rejected Trillanes’ attempt saying it is a violation of his privacy and told senators that he cannot answer allegations based on hearsay. This, even as Duterte, did admit he has a tattoo on his back but refused to show it to the Senate blue ribbon committee even in an “executive session.” It was also Trillanes who also challenged the Duterte family to sign bank waivers and allow the Anti-Money Laundering Council (AMLC) and the Office of the Ombudsman to scrutinize their bank accounts. Trillanes had accused Duterte’s son and his son-in-law, of having millions in bank deposits, in the same Senate probe. Prior to this, the senator also disclosed that the President had billions of money in his Bank of the Philippine Islands (BPI) account and other local bank accounts. Trillanes is currently holed up at the Senate after the President signed Proclamation No. 572, withdrawing the amnesty granted to him by the Aquino administration in relation to the failed military uprisings he launched during the term of then President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, and declaring it void. Macapagal-Arroyo is now the House Speaker after the successful ouster of then House leader Pantaleon Alvarez.