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Impeachment trial to open Duterte’s joint bank accounts with VP Sara for scrutiny

Published by Ellen on November 21, 2024

Former president Rodrigo Duterte grabs microphone and aims to hit former senator Antonio Trillanes IV with it during the Nov. 13 quadcom hearing,

The apoplectic reaction of Rodrigo Duterte during the Nov. 13 hearing of the House quad committee when former senator Antonio Trillanes IV presented some contents of the former president’s bank accounts in the Bank of the Philippine Islands is not surprising at all.

Since the news on those bank accounts of Duterte and his daughter, Vice President Sara Duterte, were first published on April 28, 2016, the former president’s reaction has ranged from lying to more lying to more lying.

In the course of his endless lying, sometimes his mind trips and he blurts out the truth, such as when he said during the quadcom hearing that it is not impossible for his bank accounts to now hold even P5 billion.

VP Sara, 2 senators named in ICC probe documents

Published by Ellen on July 23, 2023

Former president Rodrigo Duterte with daughter Vice President Sara and Sen. Bong Go in a 2019 photo when they attended the enthronement of Japanese Emperor Naruhito. Malacañang photo

Aside from former president Rodrigo Duterte, Vice President Sara Duterte-Carpio and two incumbent senators were named in documents submitted to the International Criminal Court (ICC) investigating the killings related to the drug war during the previous administration and when Duterte was mayor of Davao City, a copy of the documents obtained by VERA Files shows.

The vice president’s name was mentioned as knowing and approving the killings when she was city mayor, a post that her father held for more than 20 years. Sara was mayor from 2010 to 2013, and from 2016 to 2022.

A person knowledgeable of the ICC probe said she could be issued a “summons” by the ICC. If she would not comply with the summons, she would be issued a warrant of arrest.

This is the first time the name of Sara was mentioned in the documents relevant to the ICC investigation.

‘Pres’ Sara 2022 is Duterte’s insurance from ICC arrest when he is no longer president

Published by Ellen on February 23, 2019

Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte accompanied her father, Pres. Duterte, to the BoaO Forum in Hainan, China on April 201, 2018. Malacañang photo by Simeon Celi.

Early last week, fellow Malaya columnist JB Baylon posted this shout out in his Facebook wall:

After DU30, Sarah
Accept it.
Sorry na lang for those who sucked up hoping for an endorsement.
She’s the “term extension”

Last week also, as Davao City mayor Sara Duterte-Carpio went around campaigning for her 13-member Hugpong ng Pagbabago senatorial slate, there had been a lot of comments about her being a strong contender for the 2022 presidential election.

The truth is in the numbers

Published by Ellen on January 24, 2018

Sara duterte kisses the hand of her father during the IBP Davao chapter oathtaking on September 30, 2017. Malacañang photo by Robinson Niñal.

Take note that in the statements of Presidential Spokesman Harry Roque and Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte, they were not denying the contents of their bank accounts cited by VERA Files in its special report about the President and his daughter’s undeclared wealth.

They dismissed the story as “hearsay” because they said the bank records, where we based the report, have not been authenticated by the Anti-Money Laundering Council.

Last Sunday, VERA Files, which I am part of, released its analysis of the bank documents which Sen. Antonio Trillanes IV exposed in April 2016 comparing them with the Duterte father and daughter statements of assets, liabilities and net worth.

This is what VERA Files found out:

Duterte, Sara fail to declare P100M investments, documents show

Published by Ellen on January 21, 2018

By VERA Files

President Rodrigo Duterte and his daughter Sara omitted to fully disclose their joint deposits and investments at the Bank of Philippine Islands, which conservatively exceeded P100 million in some years, when they were mayor and vice mayor of Davao City, our analysis of bank records submitted to Congress and their annual net worth declarations shows.

According to the bank records, Duterte and Sara’s transactions with BPI, initially its Greenhills-EDSA branch and later the Julia Vargas branch, included:

• A P48.17 million placement in 2006 that grew to P55.13 million by 2013
• A P40.55 million investment in 2009 that stood at P41.72 million in 2013
• About $220,000, roughly P10 million, from 2006 to 2012
• The purchase of P80 million in insurance policies in 2014
• A P16.85 million investment begun in 2014

The bank records came from the Senate. Sen. Antonio Trillanes IV entered the documents that he said were from the Anti-Money Laundering Council (AMLC) into the Senate records on Oct. 3 after delivering a privilege speech saying the president had more than P2.2 billion in questionable bank transactions.

Butangerang mayor ng Davao

Published by Ellen on July 2, 2011

Fist of fury — Thanks to Inquirer for the photo

Ang mas nakakabahala sa akin kaysa yung pambubugbug ni Mayor Sara Duterte sa sheriff na magde-deliver sana ng demolition order sa mga bahay ng mga squatters sa barangay Agdao sa Davao City ay ang mga pumapalakpak sa ginawa niya.

Nasaan na ang ating respeto sa batas?

Siyempre ang mga kakampi ni Duterte, pinagtatanggol ang kanilang butangerang mayor. Maraming nagawang mabuti raw sa Davao.

Hindi naman isyu ang kanyang mabuting ginawa sa Davao. Dapat lang, mayor ka dapat gumawa ng mabuti para sa bayan mo. Ang pinag-usapan dito ay ang pananakit niya kay Sheriff Abe Andres.

Davao City mayor punches sheriff

Published by Ellen on July 1, 2011

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Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte was caught on camera punching a sheriff of the Davao Regional Trial Court Branch 15 who was serving a demolition order on Friday.

Duterte said she had asked court sheriff Abe Andres to wait for 2 hours before serving a demolition order that would destroy shanties of 500 families in Barangay Kapitan Tomas Monteverde Sr. Suliman, Agdao.

She said Andres ignored the order, causing tension to break out in the area.