The Duterte camp received both an electronic and hard copy of the International Criminal Court arrest warrant for former president Rodrigo Duterte during the latter’s arrest last March 11, a police official said Thursday.

“Right at the tube, Usec. Nicky Ty together with [Prosecutor General Richard Anthony] Fadullon, together with me gave them the electronic copy through retired general [Alex Paul] Monteagudo,” Criminal Investigation and Detection Group chief Police Major General Nicolas Torre III told an inquiry of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations.

“That was their condition…They really want a copy of the warrant, that is why a soft copy was given to them on the tube. A hard copy was printed and later on received by Atty. [Martin] Delgra at the 250th Wing," he added.

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He noted an electronic copy of the document is acceptable under the rules of court.

Philippine Center on Transnational Crime executive director Anthony Alcantara said he showed the warrant to Duterte on the plane at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport. He later showed a hard copy of the same to Duterte at the 250th Presidential Airlift Wing headquarters inside Villamor Airbase.

Duterte was arrested last March 11 after returning home from a trip from Hong Kong in the face of rumors an ICC warrant had been issued.

The ICC warrant for his arrest says that as president, Duterte created, funded and armed death squads that carried out murders of purported drug users and dealers.