“Former president Rodrigo Duterte neither filed a complaint nor testified in the drug case against former senator Leila De Lima.”
What Vera Files found
While Duterte did not appear in court to charge or testify in the drug case against De Lima, he made public statements accusing the former senator of involvement in the illegal drug trading inside the national penitentiary.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Harry Roque made this claim around 13 November 2023. Vera Files (Philippines) looked into it and published its finding on 19 November 2023, 6 days later. Its rating was “Needs context”.
Harry Roque has 50 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 31 of them false or fake, 18 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
Where the claim appeared
- YouTube videohttps://youtu.be/42jsrH73EwE?feature=shared&t=177
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