MANILA — Justice Secretary Jesus Crispin Remulla said he and the other respondents in the criminal and administrative complaints filed by Sen. Imee Marcos will be discussing their next legal move in a meeting on Friday.

Aside from Remulla, respondents to Sen. Marcos' complaint include Philippine National Police Criminal Investigation and Detection Group director Nicholas Torre and PNP chief Rommel Francisco Marbil. 

Marcos, the President's sister, filed the complaints at the Office of the Ombudsman over the arrest and surrender of former President Rodrigo Duterte to the International Criminal Court.

Remulla said he and the police officials will meet “so we can coordinate and share the legal foundations by which we stand to defend ourselves.”

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Remulla, a lawyer, said there were "many problems" in Sen. Marcos' complaints. which are based on her chair's report on Senate hearing on the arrest.

“The fact that it is not a committee report, there are no sworn statements,” he said.

Remulla reiterated that the probe did not go through a fact-finding phase.

“Nakakapagtaka kasi lahat kaming mga abogado alam naming may fact-finding iyan eh, hindi basta-basta binibigay iyan so there’s something more to it than meets the eye,” he said.

(It is puzzling, because all of us lawyers know there should be a fact-finding stage. You don't just give that, so there's something more to it than meets the eye)

“For example the Pharmally case, the Pharmally cases, P10 billion yan na people’s money clearly stolen walang nangyari, wala pang nangyayari (nothing has happened). Hopefully they will also give attention to the other cases that are cold cases right now,” he said.

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