There is no International Criminal Court (ICC) warrant of arrest for Sen. Ronald ‘Bato’ dela Rosa.
‘Until we see the arrest warrant, then there is none,’ Justice Secretary Jesus Crispin Remulla told reporters when asked if the Department of Justice was preparing for such a move.
As for contingency plans, he said authorities are not discussing it yet.
‘We’ll cross the bridge when we get there,’ Remulla said.
Former senator Antonio Trillanes IV, who was recently in The Hague, said ICC arrest warrants could be issued in early 2026 against Dela Rosa and Sen. Bong Go.
‘As for the warrant (from the ICC), we are only expecting two. One for Bato, another for Bong Go. Maybe the earliest these warrants would be out is early next year,’ he said in an interview with ‘Storycon’ on One News.
Dela Rosa could possibly be cited as detained former president Rodrigo Duterte’s co-conspirator in the drug war killings, with ICC prosecutors, in a July pre-confirmation brief, citing Dela Rosa’s vow to ‘scale up’ the Davao model of killings, his signature on Tokhang directives and his chilling statement: ‘Killings in the name of drugs. This is really about killings in the name of drugs.’