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Duterte got ₱2.14M as ‘return of capital’ from food firm, says defense witness

Vice President Sara Duterte received ₱2.14 million as “return of capital” from GenCorp Industries Inc. from 2022 to 2025, stemming from a “loose investment” she made in a company later taken over by GenCorp, a defense witness told the Senate impeachment court on Wednesday, Nov. 11.  GenCorp, a food corporation that owns six Jollibee stores,...

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COA studies post-audit of Duterte secret funds

The Commission on Audit (COA) is studying the possibility of conducting a post-fraud audit of the multimillion-peso confidential funds of Vice President Sara Duterte in view of the “aliases” and odd-sounding names of their supposed recipients in her office and the Department of Education (DepEd). Xylene Mae del Campo, state auditor of the COA-Intelligence and...

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More odd-sounding names of Duterte secret fund ‘recipients’ listed

More familiar and odd-sounding names surfaced as supposed recipients of million-peso confidential funds from the Office of the Vice President (OVP) and the Department of Education (DepEd) under Vice President Sara Duterte during the Senate impeachment trial on Tuesday, Aug. 11. DepEd special disbursing officer (SDO) Edward Fajarda was also found as having disbursed cash...

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House prosecutors drop VP chief of staff, another as impeachment trial witnesses

House prosecutors have decided to forego presenting Zuleika Lopez, chief of staff of the Office of the Vice President, and another witness on Wednesday’s impeachment trial of Vice President Sara Duterte. Private prosecutor Lorna Kapunan told the Senate impeachment court on Tuesday that the prosecution panel deemed “totally unnecessary” the testimonies of Lopez and Capt....