SURIGAO CITY - Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte-Carpio on Tuesday dismissed dares for her brother, former Davao City Mayor Paolo “Pulong” Duterte to show his tattoo that supposedly establishes his link to the illegal drug trade.

Duterte-Carpio, campaign manager of the administration-backed slate Hugpong ng Pagbabago, said a person’s right to privacy must be respected and only the court can compel her brother to show the alleged tattoo.

“Kung ako iyan of course not. Kung ako ah, hindi ko ipapakita ang tattoo ko. I have my right to privacy. Unless there’s a case about my tattoo and then sinasabi ng judge na oh ipakita mo ang tattoo then that’s the only time na magpapakita ako ng tattoo voluntarily,” Duterte-Carpio told reporters on the sidelines of HNP’s campaign sortie in Surigao City, Surigao del Norte.

(If I were him, of course not. I would not show the tattoo. I have my right to privacy. Unless there’s a case about my tattoo and the judge orders me to show it, then that’s the only time I will show it voluntarily.)

Paolo’s alleged links to the illegal drug trade were again brought to the fore after a video published online accused him of receiving illegal drug money.

The nearly 7-minute clip's narrator, which features an alleged former drug syndicate member “Bikoy,” claimed P170 million and P210 million were transferred to Paolo's purported account under an international bank in 2018.

In the video, Bikoy said he personally saw Paolo’s dragon tattoo which supposedly bears the alphanumeric code representing the former vice mayor’s “tara” or grease money.

Paolo, President Rodrigo Duterte’s eldest son, has rejected calls for him to show his alleged tattoo and accused opposition Sen. Antonio Trillanes IV of being behind the videos.

Trillanes denied Paolo’s allegation and challenged the latter to show his back tattoo.

Trillanes earlier accused the Paolo and his brother-in-law Manases Carpio of involvement in drug smuggling.

They faced off in a Senate hearing in 2017, where Trillanes asked the President's son to show his back tattoo, allegedly of a "colored and dragon-like figure," but the vice mayor refused, invoking his right to privacy.

The senator, a long-time critic of the President, had said he got the "intelligence information" that the younger Duterte was part of a drug triad from a foreign source he did not name.

The former Davao City vice mayor, who is running for representative of the city’s first district in the May midterm polls, has sued Trillanes for libel over the allegations.

Duterte has also denied that his eldest son Paolo is involved in the illegal drug trade, saying his political enemies are behind the viral video.

A second installment of the video series, titled “Ang Totoong Narcolist,” has appeared to link Duterte’s other relatives to the illegal drug trade.

The third installment, meanwhile, accused Christopher Lawrence “Bong” Go, President Duterte’s long-time aide, of owning four local bank accounts into which drug money is funneled.

Go, who is running for senator, has yet to address the allegations.