The Senate impeachment court approved on Tuesday, Oct. 13, the House prosecutors’ withdrawal of three of four articles of impeachment against Vice President Sara Duterte, keeping only the charge of unexplained and undeclared wealth against her for trial. Presiding officer Sen. Francis Escudero said the court “accepts and confirms” the prosecution’s manifestation to drop Article...
Author: Christine O. Avendaño (Christine Avendaño)
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Unexplained wealth of Duterte, husband could reach ₱1.5B, says financial expert
The unexplained wealth of Vice President Sara Duterte and her husband, Manases Carpio, could reach as high as ₱1.5 billion over three years since she took office in 2022, according to a forensic analyst. Alexander Cabrera gave the figure on Monday, Oct. 12, during Duterte’s impeachment trial when Senate presiding officer Francis Escudero asked for...
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Analyst says VP, husband have ‘undeclared wealth’ of ₱817.8 million
A financial forensics analyst testified on Friday that Vice President Sara Duterte and her husband, lawyer Manases Carpio, have ₱817.8 million in undeclared wealth amassed over the three years since she took office in 2022. According to lawyer-accountant Alexander Cabrera, the undeclared wealth consists of hidden assets such as cash, personal and other real properties,...
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‘There’s a gap, a difference’ in VP’s SALN and tax records
Vice President Sara Duterte’s declared net worth for 2025 exceeds the combined after-tax income that she and her husband, Manases Carpio, earned over the last 18 years. From 2007, when she was vice mayor of Davao City, to 2025, as the second-highest official of the land, Duterte and her husband earned a combined after-tax income...
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Dutertes hid ₱96M by ‘floating’ BPI bank transactions, says prosecution
Vice President Sara Duterte and her father, former president Rodrigo Duterte, concealed ₱96 million in joint time deposit accounts they opened in 2011 by “floating” their bank transactions for two to three years, according to documents presented by House prosecutors. But the Bank of the Philippine Islands (BPI) time deposit accounts under their names at...
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Senator-judges puzzled by Duterte couple’s bank records
The math simply isn’t mathing for the Senate impeachment court when it examined ₱4.4 billion in bank transactions tied to Vice President Sara Duterte and her husband, Manases Carpio, and flagged by the Anti-Money Laundering Council (AMLC). Court presiding officer Francis Escudero and Senate President Sherwin Gatchalian confronted AMLC Executive Director Ronel Buenaventura about discrepancies...
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₱4.4B in bank transactions tied to Duterte, husband flagged by AMLC
The Anti-Money Laundering Council (AMLC) flagged ₱4.4 billion in bank transactions tied to Vice President Sara Duterte and her husband, lawyer Manases Carpio, from 2007 to 2025, according to its executive director, Ronel Buenaventura. Testifying before the Senate impeachment court on Monday, Oct. 5, Buenaventura said the flagged bank transactions came from 666 covered transaction...
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2 properties of Duterte’s husband not declared in SALNs
Two properties in the Davao Region valued at nearly P10 million and registered in the name of Vice President Sara Duterte’s husband, Manases Carpio, were not declared in her statements of assets, liabilities, and net worth (SALNs), according to two registers of deeds. Kathy Baldonado, Davao City register of deeds, and Marco Pineda, acting register...
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GenCorp got 19 deals in Davao City, says Duterte’s brother
Davao City awarded 19 contracts worth ₱33.26 million to GenCorp Industries Inc., a food corporation listed by Vice President Sara Duterte as a business interest in her statements of assets, liabilities, and net worth (SALN), according to her brother and its mayor, Sebastian Duterte. But the mayor said he only became “familiar” with GenCorp when...
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Prosecution brings up Duterte couple’s firearms in impeachment trial
Vice President Sara Duterte and her husband, lawyer Manases Carpio, owned 51 registered guns valued at ₱7.2 million, including fully automatic weapons that a House prosecution witness said were “capable of bursts of fire.” “When you pull the trigger, it fires continuously,” Police Maj. Joericson Sangalang, records chief of the Philippine National Police-Firearms and Explosives...