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MANILA, Philippines — A Commission on Audit (COA) auditor testified on Tuesday that Vice President Sara Duterte is presumed under government auditing rules to have used confidential funds for her personal benefit after the Office of the Vice President (OVP) and the Department of Education (DepEd) failed to submit documents supporting the liquidation of millions of pesos in confidential funds.
Former COA Intelligence and Confidential Funds Audit Office auditor Roderick Wamil, appearing for the second day before the Senate impeachment court, cited Paragraph 8.3 of Joint Circular No. 2015-01, which states that an accountable officer’s failure to liquidate public or confidential funds under his or her custody constitutes prima facie evidence that the missing funds were used for the officer’s personal benefit.
Now an audit team leader in Pasay City, Wamil also rejected the defense’s argument that the OVP was exempt from liquidation requirements because the confidential funds came from the Office of the President (OP).
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