Batangas Rep. Gerville Luistro points to the box containing income tax documents from the Bureau of Internal Revenue during the House Justice Committee hearing on the impeachment case against Vice President Sara Duterte on Wednesday, April 29, 2026. (Photo by Grig C. Montegrande / INQUIRER.net)
MANILA, Philippines — It will be a “temporary setback” for the House prosecution team in Vice President Sara Duterte’s trial if the Senate impeachment court will return the container holding Duterte and her spouse’s tax records, amid efforts to unseal it.
Former Surigao del Norte Rep. Robert Ace Barbers, impeachment prosecution panel adviser, expressed this view on Sunday.
On Saturday, Sen. Panfilo “Ping” Lacson said the upper chamber has “no business” keeping evidence, including the box containing Duterte and her husband’s, lawyer Maneses Carpio, Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) records.
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