The Senate impeachment court concluded its receipt of subpoenaed financial documents on July 30, 2026, gathering bank records, tax filings, and money-laundering reports tied to Vice President Sara Duterte, her husband, and 20 entities named in the subpoenas as her impeachment trial advances.
In a statement posted to its official Facebook page, the Senate said the Office of the Clerk of Court closed the day’s documentary submissions after the Anti-Money Laundering Council (AMLC) filed its compliance at 4:26 p.m. The records cover Duterte, her husband, Atty. Manases Carpio, and 20 corporate entities and partnerships identified in the court’s orders.
Senate Secretary and Clerk of Court Renato Bantug said the Bureau of Internal Revenue was the first to comply at around 9 a.m., followed through the day by BDO, Metrobank, PSBank, Security Bank, the Bank of the Philippine Islands, and Land Bank, before the AMLC’s afternoon submission, according to the Manila Bulletin. Bantug had earlier noted that some banks requested additional time to turn over portions of the requested documents.
The BIR complied only after securing clearance from Malacañang. Bantug confirmed to reporters that the agency’s tax records arrived with written authorization from the Office of the President, telling reporters he would not have accepted them without it, the Manila Times reported. President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. had authorized the release of the tax documents.
The documents were sought under Article II of the Articles of Impeachment, which accuses Duterte of amassing unexplained wealth and of filing false Statements of Assets, Liabilities and Net Worth. The prosecution has pointed to a wide gap between Duterte’s roughly P80 million in declared wealth and P6.7 billion in covered and suspicious bank transactions that the AMLC has linked to the couple. Duterte has maintained that all her assets were legally acquired.
The impeachment court granted the subpoenas on July 20 but limited them to peso-denominated accounts, excluding foreign currency deposits absent a written waiver from depositors. Presiding officer Senator Francis Escudero directed that AMLC records be submitted in camera and reviewed privately before any material is released to the parties. Requests targeting the JTC Group of Companies and Pikimong Pikimong Philippines Corporation were denied for lack of a demonstrated link to the respondents.
The trial has recently featured testimony from two former Land Bank managers who described the encashment of P612.5 million in confidential funds as unlike anything they had seen in their careers, according to the Manila Times. House prosecutors have signaled that witnesses from the Commission on Audit, the National Bureau of Investigation, and the Philippine Statistics Authority are expected to testify on questioned confidential fund expenditures as proceedings continue.
