37 alleged recipients of Sara Duterte’s secret funds are dead – PSA

Philippine Statistics Authority Assistant National Statistician Marizza Grande MANILA, Philippines— Government records showed that 37 alleged recipients of confidential funds released to Vice President Sara Duterte are already dead, an official of the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) told the Senate impeachment court on Monday. “Based po dito sa re-verification namin ng single-match entry, nakita po namin na doon sa mga pangalan under the OVP (Office of the Vice President) ay mayroon po mga talaan kung saan may records na po ng mga kamatayan o death certificates po at 32 po ay nakita namin na mga official death certficates samga pangalan na yun,” PSA Assistant National Statistician Marizza Grande said during the direct examination of private prosecutor Mae Divinagracia. (Based on our re-verification of the single-match entries, we found that some of the names under the OVP (Office of the Vice President) had records indicating that the individuals were already deceased. We found official death certificates for 32 of the names.) Article continues after this advertisement READ: Duterte trial Day 22: PSA official to testify on CF payees’ identities “Yung isang listahan po, pertaining po dun sa DepEd list, mayroon pong lima na official death certificate na nakita namin sa CRS (Civil Registry System) database,” Grande said. (The other list, pertaining to the DepEd list, had five official death certificates that we found in the CRS (Civil Registry System) database.) Duterte concurrently served as secretary of the Department Education (DepEd) from 2022 to 2024. READ: ‘Mary Grace Piattos’ does not exist, PSA confirms Article continues after this advertisement Divinagracia earlier noted that the OVP listed 1, 992 recipients of its P500 million in confidential funds while DepEd’s P112.5 million supposedly went to 677 recipients. Duterte’s alleged misuse of confidential funds is one of four articles of impeachment lodged against her. /dl Your subscription could not be saved. Please try again. Your subscription has been successful.