Colonel Querubin granted provisional liberty
FORMER Marine Col. Ariel Querubin walked free from his detention cell Wednesday noon, more than four years after figuring in a failed attempt to overthrow the administration of former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo.
Armed Forces of the Philippines Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Ricardo David signed on Tuesday night the detained official’s provisional release papers.
AFP spokesman Brig. Gen. Jose Mabanta said Querubin will still have to attend all the hearings in his general court martial, even as he stressed Querubin cannot leave the country.
He will be placed under the custody of Brigadier General Reynaldo Ordoñez, head of the AFP’s Defense Reform Office.
Querubin was deemed retired from the military service after he ran but lost for senator in the May 10 elections under the Nacionalista Party.
He had been detained at Camp Aguinaldo, facing trial before a military tribunal for a charge of mutiny in connection with his group’s plot to march and subsequently withdraw their support from then President Arroyo in February 2006. (PIA-Bohol)
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