Son of Philippine president denies involvement in $125 million drug shipment from China

Almaty. September 8. Silkroadnews - Philippine president's son denies links to $125 million drug shipment from China, the information portal Shanghaiist reports.
“Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s son on Thursday told a Senate inquiry he had no links to a seized shipment of $125 million worth of narcotics from China, dismissing as "baseless" the allegations of his involvement in the drug trade,” the report says.
President’s opponents, who started a tough fight with the drug trade, say that Paolo Duterte, allegedly, helped the drugs to enter the port in the capital of the Philippines, Manila.
Reportedly, on Tuesday Duterte said he had told Paolo to attend the senate investigation if he had nothing to hide, besides advising him not to answer questions and invoke his right to keep silent.
Paolo Dutterte himself told the Senate that he cannot answer allegations based on rumors.
According to the publication, the Philippine leader has repeatedly stated that he would resign if critics could prove that members of his family are involved in corruption.
“Senator Antonio Trillanes, a staunch critic of the president, displayed to the Senate panel photographs of Paolo Duterte beside a businessman who was behind the shipment in which the alleged drugs were found. The president's son-in-law, Manases Carpio, who has also been accused of links to the May drug shipment from China, told the hearing he had no involvement,” report said.
Dutterte unleashed his bloody campaign against drugs the day he took office on June 30 last year and promised the Filipinos to wipe out crime and drugs.
The police reported on more than 3,800 people died in police operations since July last year, and more than 2,100 other reported murders were related to drugs. The police reject claims of activists saying the police killed suspects in drug addiction and drug trafficking and assures that the officers shot only for self-defense.
“Trillanes said he had intelligence information from an undisclosed foreign country that Paolo Duterte was a member of a criminal syndicate, citing as proof a "dragon-like" tattoo with secret digits on his back. Asked about the tattoo, Duterte said he had one, but declined to describe it, invoking his right to privacy. Asked by Trillanes if he would allow a photograph to be taken of the tattoo and sent to the U.S Drug Enforcement Agency to decode secret digits, Duterte said: “No way”,” the publication reads