Additional financial documents tied to Vice President Sara Duterte and her spouse, lawyer Manases Carpio, reached the Senate impeachment court on Wednesday, September 3, 2026, broadening the pool of evidence tied to the unexplained wealth charge she faces.
According to the Office of the Clerk of Court, the newly turned-over materials fall within the boundaries set by an earlier order. “Consistent with the 20 July 2026 ruling of the Presiding Officer, the submitted documents cover peso-denominated accounts and transactions as well as the financial interests of Vice President Duterte, her spouse, Atty. Manases Carpio, and 20 entities covering the period from 2007 to 2025,” the office said in its statement.
That 18-year window stretches back to Duterte’s years as Davao City mayor and vice mayor, well before she held any office subject to impeachment. Presiding Officer Senator Francis Escudero previously clarified that records from her pre-national-office years are admissible only to fix a baseline for measuring her assets and cannot be wielded to raise new charges against her.
The financial trail sits at the heart of Article II of the complaint, which alleges that Duterte accumulated wealth beyond what her salary and declared income could account for and that she filed inaccurate Statements of Assets, Liabilities and Net Worth. Prosecutors have pointed to figures aired during House justice committee hearings, where the Anti-Money Laundering Council reported that roughly P6.77 billion in large and suspicious transactions passed through accounts linked to the couple between 2006 and 2025 — a sum far exceeding what Duterte listed in her SALNs.
The scope of what banks may hand over was deliberately narrowed by the court. Escudero restricted the reach of the subpoenas to peso accounts and rejected the prosecution’s bid to pull foreign-currency deposits into the examination. Two firms named in the original request, JTC Group of Companies Philippines Inc. and Pikimong Pikimong Philippines Corporation, were left out after the court found no adequate connection between them and either Duterte or her husband.
By late July, GMA News Online reported that six lenders — BDO, BPI, Philippine Savings Bank, Metrobank, LandBank, and Security Bank — had already forwarded records on the couple to the court, where the files were placed under inventory and security handling.
In authorizing the original subpoenas, the court leaned on the 2012 impeachment of then-Chief Justice Renato Corona, when the Senate likewise compelled banks to produce financial records. Escudero also invoked Republic Act 6713, which obliges public officials to disclose assets held by their spouses, in overruling the defense’s objection to accounts held solely by Carpio or jointly with the Vice President.
