CIDG Chief Nicolas Torre III said that the request made by former President Rodrigo Duterte to be brought to the hospital to be checked would be too much.
A video uploaded on social media showed tension inside the Kalayaan Hall at Villamor Airbase, where the former President was expected to undergo the booking process.
Atty. Martin Delgra could be heard and seen arguing with Torre about the rights of the former president to seek medical treatment in a hospital of his choice.
Delgra said that the PNP could do the booking process while Duterte is in the hospital.
However, Torre insisted that the booking process should happen in Villamor Airbase.
“What is clear is we need to do the booking process now, sir, period,” said Torre.
Duterte’s common-law wife Honeylet Avancena also confronted Torre.
Several sources said that there was an aircraft waiting for Duterte, which was believed to be the plane that would transfer the former president to the Hague in the Netherlands.