Duterte’s Team Includes Ex-Marine Philippine Coup Plotter
- Ex-marine who plotted against Arroyo will head customs bureau
- Journalist group denounces Duterte remarks on media killings
Nicanor Faeldon in 2010. Photographer: Noel Celis/AFP via Getty Images
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Philippine President-elect Rodrigo Duterte expanded his administration to include a former coup plotter and held off on offering a position to incoming Vice President Leni Robredo.
Nicanor Faeldon, a former marine captain who took part in the 2003 uprising against ex-President Gloria Arroyo and a second coup attempt in 2007, will head the Bureau of Customs, the government’s second-largest revenue agency, Duterte told a briefing in Davao Tuesday. The Bureau of Internal Revenue, which collects more than 70 percent of state funds, will be led by lawyer Cesar Dulay, he said.