Former Sen. Antonio Trillanes IV has refiled a graft and plunder complaint against former President Rodrigo Duterte and Sen. Bong Go over billions of pesos’ worth of public works contracts allegedly awarded to companies owned by Go’s family.
Reviving a 2024 complaint dismissed by the previous Ombudsman, Trillanes accused Duterte, Go, and the senator’s father and brother—Deciderio and Alfred Go—of corruption and abuse of power in the awarding of nearly P7 billion in government contracts since 2007.
“Respondent Go clearly took advantage of his public positions as an aide and [alter ego] of Respondent Duterte in cornering illicitly billions upon billions of public infrastructure projects in favor of the unqualified sole proprietorship registered in the names of his father and brother, thus unduly enriching himself and members of his immediate family,” the complaint stated.
The former president, it added, “consciously, knowingly, and deliberately connived with him and/or indulged him in this illicit scheme, obviously as a reward for respondent Go’s blind and canine loyalty.”
The 35-page complaint, filed Tuesday before the Office of the Ombudsman, accused Duterte and Go of awarding projects to CLTG Builders, owned by Go’s father, and Alfrego Builders & Supply, controlled by his brother.
Trillanes said the two firms “cornered approximately P6.95 billion in government infrastructure projects from 2016 to the present,” involving more than 200 projects mainly in the Davao region.
Trillanes noted that a previous version of the case, filed in July 2024, was dismissed by then Ombudsman Samuel Martires without investigation.
“They really buried it. So we had an opportunity to add to what we earlier filed,” he told reporters.
Go, for his part, dismissed the new complaint as a political stunt and “rehash” of the old one, saying it was meant to distract the public from the real culprits in the ongoing public works corruption scandal.
Trillanes further alleged that more than P816 million of the contracts were obtained through a joint venture between CLTG Builders and St. Gerrard Construction General Contractor & Development Corp., owned by Pacifico and Cezarah Discaya, contractors who are now under probe for anomalous flood-control projects.
