Vice President Sara Duterte speaks throughout a press convention at her workplace in Manila on December 11, 2024. Philippine lawmakers on February 5 voted to ship articles of impeachment towards Vice President Sara Duterte to the Senate, a day earlier than the present congressional session was set to finish. (Photograph by TED ALJIBE / AFP)
MANILA, Philippines — Extra names seemingly derived from meals have been discovered as “non-existent” recipients of confidential funds of Vice President Sara Duterte’s workplace, in response to a lawmaker.
The record of questionable names consists of “Jay Kamote” and “Miggy Mango,” in response to Home Deputy Majority Chief and La Union Rep. Paolo Ortega V.
He additionally mentioned there are 5 “Dodongs”: Dodong Alcala, Dodong Bina, Dodong Bunal, Dodong Darong, and Dodong S. Barok.
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“First, we found names much like junk meals and cellphone manufacturers. Now, there are fruits and candy potato, in addition to the ‘Dodong Gang’ not solely three however 5 Dodongs have been on the record,” Ortega mentioned in a press release on Sunday.
“What sort of payroll is that this? Imaginary? We can not decide if these persons are actual people who acquired cash from the CIF (confidential and intelligence funds).
Earlier, Ortega bared names much like chip manufacturers and cellphones linked to “Mary Grace Piattos,” one of many non-existent recipients of confidential funds of the Workplace of the Vice President’s (OVP) assist program. The names embrace “Pia Piatos-Lim,” “Renan Piatos,” and “Xiaome Ocho.”
Ortega mentioned Jay Kamote, Miggy Mango, and the 5 Dodongs additionally don’t have any start, marriage, or loss of life information on the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA).
In December 2024, the Home committee on good authorities and public accountability submitted the names of 1,992 people linked to the alleged misuse of the OVP’s confidential funds.
Citing the PSA, Ortega mentioned 670 of the 1,992 names had a “most certainly match” in PSA information; 1,322 people had no start information; 1,456 had no marriage information (with solely 536 attainable matches); and 1,593 had no loss of life information (with simply 399 attainable matches).
Earlier, panel chair Manila third District Rep. Joel Chua mentioned 405 of the 667 names discovered on the acknowledgment receipts for the confidential funds of the Division of Training beneath Duterte don’t have any document with the PSA.
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