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Vigor Mendoza II and Teofilo Guadiz III, both former Land Transportation Office chiefs, face preventive suspension after auditors found their decisions to keep the Stradcom-operated IT system running alongside its government-built replacement cost motorists more than P13 billion since 2019.
State auditor Roderick Wamil testified that COA's own guidelines create a legal presumption that ₱375 million in confidential funds Vice President Sara Duterte's office failed to properly liquidate were used for personal benefit — as the Senate impeachment court prepares to hear three more witnesses this week.
A former COA auditor told the Senate impeachment court that Vice President Sara Duterte's chief of staff and a DepEd official asked auditors in September 2023 to issue a softer "audit query" instead of a formal audit observation memorandum if they found deficiencies in ₱612.5 million of confidential fund spending — a request auditors rejected because it had no basis in COA rules.
Former COA intelligence-funds auditor Roderick Wamil told the Senate impeachment court the Office of the Vice President's liquidation papers lacked the activity-level detail required under COA rules, as prosecutors wheeled in 15 boxes of confidential-fund records.
State auditors say the city government has made "no effective progress" since 2024 in fixing a broken Gender and Development database, and a city official blamed the recurring finding on a "copy-paste culture" in report preparation.
The Commission on Audit issued an unmodified opinion on the Department of Transportation's fiscal year 2025 consolidated financial statements, a milestone the agency says reflects tightened financial controls under Secretary Giovanni Lopez.
Ombudsman Jesus Crispin Remulla's declared net worth rose from P441.7 million to P461.4 million between October and December 2025 — his first three months leading the country's top anti-graft body — with the increase tied largely to four Cavite farm lots, according to his SALN obtained by The Philippine STAR.
Two of three key Commission on Audit executives reported lower net worth in their 2025 SALNs, according to disclosures published on May 22 — with COA Commissioner Ike Lipana simultaneously facing an Ombudsman investigation after it emerged that his wife held nine DPWH contracts in Bulacan worth ₱326.6 million during the period he was supposed to be auditing government projects.
A taxpayer complaint filed before the Office of the Deputy Ombudsman for Luzon asks that Camarines Sur 4th District Representative Arnulf Bryan Fuentebella, two DPWH district engineers, and private contractors face criminal charges after two flood control structures in his district — collectively worth ₱84 million — were paid in full but collapsed or washed out before public use.
