The request comes in the wake of a PSA report that revealed glaring discrepancies in an earlier batch of names.
The House Committee on Good Government and Public Accountability is asking the Philippine Statistics Authority to verify the civil registry records of a new batch of 1,992 names linked to P500 million in confidential funds allegedly spent by the Office of the Vice President under Vice President Sara Duterte.
The request comes in the wake of a PSA report that revealed glaring discrepancies in an earlier batch of names tied to P112.5 million in confidential funds disbursed by the Department of Education during Duterte’s term as secretary in 2023. The latest batch of names under scrutiny have appeared on acknowledgment receipts submitted by the OVP to the Commission on Audit to justify confidential fund expenditures from late 2022 to the third quarter of 2023.“A certification that these names are not in the PSA database would bolster suspicions that they do not exist and that the ARs were fabricated to justify confidential fund expenditures by the OVP and DepEd under Vice President Duterte,” Chua said.
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