​MANILA, Philippines — Philippine Ambassador to the United Kingdom Teodoro Locsin Jr. said former president Rodrigo Duterte was not arrested by the International Criminal Court (ICC) but was "abducted by Filipinos and handed over to foreigners." ​Duterte is currently detained at The Hague, awaiting trial for crimes against humanity allegedly committed during his bloody drug war. ​Locsin was Duterte's former Foreign Affairs secretary. President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. appointed him to head the country's mission to the UK. ​"If he is guilty of crimes, we thereby confessed our country's and our state's inability to hold him to account. The idea that foreigners, especially Westerners, can judge us is beyond disgusting; it is treason," Locsin wrote on Facebook. ​"It is a confession begging for foreign domination in purely national affairs; and by willing and complicit admission," he added. ​Foreign Affairs Secretary Ma. Theresa Lazaro said in a chance interview that she has yet to talk to Locsin concerning the matter. ​"I cannot confirm if that is [him]. There must be a reason for that. Let me give a phone call first to Ambassador Locsin," said Lazaro. ​Sen. Imee Marcos agreed with Locsin's view. "I agree with what Ambassador Locsin said that president Duterte was not arrested by the ICC, but was surrendered by the Republic of the Philippines," she said in Filipino. ​Pressed whether Locsin made the right move being part of the Philippine government and as a diplomat, Marcos said, "I don't know, because I'm not a diplomat." ​"Teddy Boy (Locsin) started as a writer, a media personality, just like you. He became a politician, and not a diplomat so to speak," Marcos added.