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House prosecutors on Monday presented acknowledgment receipts bearing questionable names and incomplete documentation in the Office of the Vice President’s (OVP) liquidation of confidential funds, arguing these reflected a pattern of irregularities that amounted to betrayal of public trust by Vice President Sara Duterte.
On the 11th day of Duterte’s impeachment trial before the Senate as an impeachment court, prosecutors relied heavily on the testimony of Commission on Audit (COA) auditor Roderick Wamil to show that the OVP failed to comply with government rules governing confidential funds released in the last 11 days of 2022.
A certified public accountant and lawyer, the 35-year-old Wamil served under the COA’s Intelligence and Confidential Funds Audit Office (Icfao) from 2014 to 2024. He conducted an audit of the liquidation and confidential expenditures of the OVP from December 2022 to September 2023 and the Department of Education (DepEd) from January to September 2023.
The prosecution’s third witness for Article 1 involving the alleged misuse of P612.5-million confidential funds in the OVP (P500 million) and DepEd (P112.5 million) testified on the insufficiency of the documentary submissions for the liquidation of confidential funds of the two offices that Duterte concurrently headed.
