Vice President Sara Duterte’s defense team on Thursday said prosecutors bear the burden of proving allegations, rejecting calls for her to voluntarily open her bank records in the Senate impeachment trial.

Defense spokesperson Michael Poa said requiring Duterte to disclose her financial records simply because she has been accused would undermine the constitutional presumption of innocence.

“You cannot simply say, ‘I think you did something wrong, so you should produce the evidence because if you have nothing to hide, you shouldn’t object,’” Poa said in a TV interview.

Poa argued that forcing Duterte to surrender her bank and tax records would create a dangerous precedent by shifting the burden of proof from prosecutors to the defense.

The Senate impeachment court earlier granted prosecutors’ request to subpoena Duterte’s and her husband Manases Carpio’s peso-denominated bank records, tax records and Anti-Money Laundering Council documents, but denied requests covering foreign currency deposits.

The defense described the subpoenas as “fatally overbroad,” arguing that prosecutors sought financial records dating back to 2007 even though impeachable offenses can only be committed while an official occupies an impeachable office.

The Senate granted the subpoenas but ruled that the records must still pass admissibility and relevance tests before they may be used as evidence during the trial.