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00:00The Committee of the Camera nominated the more than 100 receipts with a 2023 deadline used to justify the spending of the 2022 confidential funds of the Office of the Vice President.
00:11There are also receipts that have no deadline or signature.
00:16The OVP officials did not respond to the invitation so the camera has an excuse.
00:21We have first news from Jonathan Andal.
00:25Mr. Chairman, if there are...
00:28None of the seven officials of the Office of the Vice President who were called to the hearing of the camera about the confidential funds of Vice President Sara Duterte arrived.
00:37One of their chief of staff, the vice president, flew to Los Angeles, California, according to the committee secretary.
00:44The seven will be called again and if they do not arrive, they will be arrested.
00:50You are the fourth who did not arrive. This is the fifth invitation.
00:55Do not challenge us that we will issue a contempt order against you.
01:01But the gate of the seven OVP officials was sent a position paper to the committee.
01:05The first receipt of the camera was not valid.
01:08The receipt of the receipt was not valid until October 17.
01:11The hearing was scheduled for October 28, but it was canceled due to the typhoon.
01:16They also stated that the hearing did not happen in aid of legislation or to help in the creation of the law.
01:22They also have the right to deny this.
01:25VP Sara's spokesperson said that he is no longer connected to the vice president.
01:29We decided mutually that I cannot fulfill the obligations of the contract as a spokesperson.
01:38I found it very difficult for me to go on media and be interviewed on the same matter
01:44because I lost my objectivity because I'm also part of the hearing as a resource person.
01:50It is not clear who will speak for the vice president.
01:54Especially in the questions of the congressman regarding more than half a billion pesos in confidential funds of the deputy OVP
02:01in 2022 and 2023, the details of how it was spent are not yet known.
02:06Where is the 612.5 million now? Who spent it and for what purpose was it spent?
02:14Among the congressmen who were interviewed were the acknowledgment receipts sent by the OVP
02:20with no stamp and no signature.
02:23Others have different signatures and stamps, but it seems that the print and the penmanship are the same,
02:30just like these two receipts.
02:32Can you observe the letter J?
02:36Is it correct that the letter J is almost the same?
02:39Yes, Mr. Chair.
02:41Yes?
02:43Is it also correct that the color of the ink used and the width of the writing are the same?
02:52Yes, Mr. Chair.
02:54The ink used is also the same as the ink used in the signature of a member of the OVP.
03:00Is the Prussian blue I showed not the same?
03:06It looks the same, Mr. Chair.
03:08It looks the same.
03:10The same?
03:12So it's the same ink used by Asek Lemuel Ortonio, the assistant chief of staff of the office of the vice president.
03:23There are only two things.
03:25The funds were spent.
03:27It was used by others or it was spent.
03:33If you don't want to accept it, I can accept it.
03:36It was also observed that there are 158 receipts with the number 2023,
03:41but it was used as justification for the expenditure of the 2022 confidential funds.
03:46The answer of the OVP to COA was that it was just a typo error.
03:50I don't think, Mr. Chair, this was a mistake that was committed in December 2022.
03:54This was a mistake that was committed after the fact, after the AOM, and after the notice of suspension,
03:59when they were rushing to comply with all the holes of the COA.
04:04It happened 158 times, which raises the question, are these acknowledgement receipts spurious?
04:10Are they bogus? Are they false?
04:12They said they have inadvertently contained clerical or typographical errors indicating 2023 instead of 2022.
04:22Considering the nature of confidential activities, which are usually conducted discreetly
04:27and completed within a short period of time,
04:30and in addition to the lack of attention to details of personnel,
04:33attending to voluminous papers from several individuals,
04:37some date and acknowledgement receipts submitted as proof of transactions may have been missed.
04:43A DepEd official who received envelopes worth P25,000 from VP Sara, who was also a DepEd secretary, also faced the issue.
04:52How many times?
04:53Nine times.
04:54The first time I received it, I honestly asked Aseks Shine,
04:58Ma'am, is it part of the confidential funds?
05:02She said, no, it was just an allowance from the Vice President.
05:07Aseks Shine is Sunshine Fajarda, who was a former Aseks at DepEd and is now with the OVP.
05:12The OVP officials are still trying to get a statement.
05:16There is no new statement about VP Sara,
05:18but she said before that there is no misuse of confidential funds.
05:22This is the first news. Jonathan Andal for GMA Integrated News.