COA flags Duterte order to transfer confidential funds
A state auditor told the impeachment trial of Vice President Sara Duterte on Tuesday that confidential funds entrusted to her office’s special disbursing…
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A state auditor told the impeachment trial of Vice President Sara Duterte on Tuesday that confidential funds entrusted to her office’s special disbursing…
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The claimed refusal of Vice President Sara Duterte’s camp to stipulate to and authenticate documents from her own offices has allegedly caused an inordinate…
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A dispute over documents supporting allegations of irregular confidential-fund spending could slow the impeachment trial of Vice President Sara Duterte, with…
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The confidential and intelligence fund allocations were not just budget items. They were tools for coalition management.
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In a single decade, the confidential and intelligence funds of one office grew more than thirteenfold, without any corresponding national threat serious enough…
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The impeachment trial of Vice President Sara Duterte has exposed weaknesses in the government’s rules on confidential and intelligence funds, prompting calls…
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Malacañang on Wednesday dismissed online claims that Senator Ronald “Bato” dela Rosa had been arrested, describing it as a diversionary tactic of allies of…
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Government rules governing the liquidation of confidential and intelligence funds neither explicitly allow nor prohibit the use of aliases in supporting…
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Presumptions often carry a stronger implication of probability or likelihood. For example, when someone is presumed innocent until proven guilty, this belief…
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Government rules governing the liquidation of confidential and intelligence funds neither explicitly allow nor prohibit the use of aliases in supporting…
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A Commission on Audit (CoA) official acknowledged before the Senate impeachment court on Tuesday that no government rule prohibited the Office of the Vice…
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The defense team of Vice President Sara Duterte on Tuesday presented a 2014 Department of Budget and Management (DBM) document before the Senate impeachment…
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‘The submission of receipts, bills or commercial invoices in support of disbursements from these funds for rental of safe houses, purchase of meals or supplies…
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Vice President Sara Duterte spent nearly P30 million in seven months in 2023 during her stint as secretary of the Department of Education (DepEd) to deter the…
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Perhaps Bongbong felt he could not begin the administration by telling her no. That’s the one.
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These days, the political babel shatters illusions that enough is being done for the people by those they elected to lead them toward progress.
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If P612.5 million allocated for national security cannot be satisfactorily accounted for through even the most basic standards of documentary integrity, then…
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House prosecutor Lorna Kapunan described Vice President Sara Duterte's alleged misuse of confidential funds as "a scam" during Tuesday's…
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