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Amparo Cabotaje-Tang, testifying under subpoena as the prosecution's first Article II witness, said undisclosed spousal assets and disproportionate wealth trigger a legal presumption Vice President Duterte must personally rebut.
Presiding officer Francis Escudero ruled the records, covering peso accounts, 19 corporate entities, and years predating Duterte's vice presidency, are "prima facie relevant" to the unexplained-wealth allegations in her impeachment trial.
Former Senate President Franklin Drilon warned that any attempt to suppress evidence in Vice President Sara Duterte's impeachment trial could trigger the kind of public backlash that toppled Joseph Estrada in 2001, as the Senate's pre-trial conference resumed June 22 with three of four articles still to be marked — and a sealed BIR box, COA disallowances, and P6.77 billion in flagged transactions among the documents awaiting examination.
Vice President Sara Duterte and her husband, lawyer Manases Carpio, declared a combined net worth of P98.66 million for 2025 — an 11.46% increase — even as the Vice President again reported no cash on hand or in bank and the couple kept ten business entities undivested, two issues that figure directly in the impeachment articles now headed to trial.
