Whistleblower-sourced bank records formed the backbone of former senator Antonio Trillanes IV’s sworn testimony before the House Committee on Justice on Wednesday, April 22, as he detailed what he described as multi-billion-peso movements through bank accounts he linked to the Duterte family.
Trillanes told the panel that a source who identified himself as Joseph De Mesa provided him with the documents in 2016. Based on his analysis of those alleged bank records and transaction summaries, he arrived at a figure of ₱2,407,272,103.75 that he said had “entered and flowed” through accounts he attributed to former President Rodrigo Duterte and Vice President Sara Duterte between 2003 and 2016.
The former senator said his legal team reviewed the materials and cross-referenced them against the Duterte family’s Statements of Assets, Liabilities, and Net Worth for the same period. The accounts, he said, appeared under the names of both Rodrigo and Sara Duterte across several banks.
Trillanes said the gap between what those documents showed and what the Dutertes had declared in their SALNs was what led him to bring the information to public attention.
His testimony came on the same day the Anti-Money Laundering Council disclosed to the committee that banks had flagged a total of ₱6.77 billion in covered and suspicious transactions linked to the Vice President and her husband, lawyer Manases Carpio, from 2006 to 2025 — a figure that lawmakers noted stood in stark contrast to Sara Duterte’s SALN declarations, which showed no cash or bank deposits from 2019 to 2024.
