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MANILA, Philippines — After two days of cancelled proceedings due to bad weather, Gina Acosta is set to continue testifying on Monday, August 24 – the 17th day of Vice President Sara Duterte’s impeachment trial.
This schedule comes as the Senate impeachment court resumes tackling Duterte’s alleged misuse of confidential funds.
Acosta is the former Office of the Vice President’s (OVP) special disbursing officer (SDO) who encashed the office’s confidential funds worth P125 million per quarter, from the last quarter of 2022 to the third quarter of 2023.
Because Acosta held a coterminous position with the OVP with Duterte as her superior, last August 17, the ex-SDO was declared a hostile witness, or a witness with presumed biases for the respondent.
