DOJ: No plan to stop Leila’s foreign trip

Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre II. INQUIRER FILE PHOTO/ MARIANNE BERMUDEZ

The Department of Justice (DOJ) has no plans of stopping Sen. Leila de Lima from going on official business in the United States and Germany this week because no hold departure order has been issued against her as of now.

“Acting on the letter of Sen. De Lima relative to her plan to travel abroad, the DOJ has issued an Allow Departure Order or ADO to allow her to travel abroad because no case has as yet been filed against her before the courts,” said Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre II.

Aguirre said that De Lima has also provided the DOJ with the travel authority from Senate President Aquilino Pimentel III as proof that she was traveling on official business.