DOJ spokesman Mico Clavano said an official communication regarding the matter would have to go through the Department of Foreign Affairs.
DFA Secretary Enrique Manalo told The STAR last night that he is “not aware” of any such request.
Manalo, however, thanked Indonesia through its ambassador in Manila for the assistance in the arrest of Guo. Manalo, who attended Indonesia’s 79th National Day celebration at the Dusit Thani, said he ordered the Philippine embassy in Jakarta to assist the Philippine officials who flew to Indonesia to pick up Guo.
Clavano said it was only from Indonesian media where the DFA learned of a purported request from Jakarta to trade Guo, a dismissed Tarlac town mayor, with Australian drug suspect Gregor Johann Haas. Drug trafficking is punishable by death in Indonesia. The Bureau of Immigration (BI) arrested Haas on May 15 in Bogo, Cebu.
“It’s very premature to even talk about this because we haven’t yet received official request,” Clavano told reporters.
BI spokesperson Dana Sandoval said “there is nothing on the table” for a possible custody trade-off.
“Personally, I have no knowledge. (I) will get information on the ground, but I have not heard of anything like this on the table,” Sandoval said in an interview on GMA 7.
She added that the bureau does not practice exchanging detainees, as it follows only mandated deportation proceedings. She stressed they have good communication with their counterparts in Indonesia.
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