Many journalists talk to whistleblowers, in fairness, but only Paul Gutierrez is being accused of threatening a witness

Journalists have been called to hearings of the House of Representatives probing into the Duterte war on drugs, and often it’s to testify on stories done to expose state abuses in the campaign.

But not so for Paul Gutierrez and Benny Antiporda, members of the National Press Club who were former media practitioners who got government appointments under Duterte. Both were called on Thursday, November 7, to appear before the House quad committee because they allegedly threatened a whistleblower not to name any members of the Duterte family in a tell-all testimony.

Jimmy Guban, a former Customs intelligence officer who is now detained over his alleged ties to the P11-billion smuggled shabu in Cavite in 2018, told the lower house that Gutierrez went to his holding room in the Senate to threaten him not to mention the names of Davao City First District Representative Paolo Duterte and lawyer Mans Carpio, the husband of Vice President Sara Duterte.

Guban repeated on Thursday his claim that their investigation showed Paolo Duterte, Mans Carpio, and former presidential economic adviser Michael Yang were behind the shabu smuggled through magnetic lifters. Paolo Duterte has already denied this accusation.

Guban added: “‘Yun din ang sinasabi ni Paul Gutierrez sa advice sa kanya ni Benny Antiporda na huwag na huwag kong babanggitin during the hearing [sa Senate] kaya...

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