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MANILA, Philippines – The Philippine Navy’s spokesperson for the West Philippine Sea said on Friday, May 24, there was no reason to investigate a Naval commander embroiled in controversy over a wiretapped conversation with the defense attache of Chinese embassy in Manila.
Commodore Roy Vincent Trinidad, newly-appointed Naval Inspector General and the Navy’s concurrent spokesperson for the West Philippine Sea, told reporters on the sidelines of the Navy’s 126th anniversary celebration, that there was no reason to probe sacked Western Command chief Vice Admiral Alberto Carlos over a January 2024 phone call with a certain Senior Colonel Li Jianzhong, Beijing’s defense attache in Manila.
The phone call – and the Chinese embassy in Manila’s apparent wiretapping – is the subject of …