House solons hit VP Sara figures

The third day of the House justice committee’s impeachment hearings against Vice President Sara Duterte surfaced a whopping P6.77 billion in bank transactions that passed through her accounts and those of her husband over nearly two decades.

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The amount — reported by banks to the Anti-Money Laundering Council from 2006 to 2025 — is not irregular on its own. But House lawmakers said it becomes questionable when compared with Duterte’s wealth declarations, which for six straight years listed no cash on hand and no money in the bank at all.

That is the central tension the House justice panel pulled into the open on Wednesday, April 22: Duterte’s bank accounts showed billions in movement, but her Statements of Assets, Liabilities, and Net Worth (SALN) show she only had a peak net worth of just P88.5 million, and zero declared cash from 2019 to 2024.

AMLC Executive Director Ronel Buenaventura presented the data under subpoena.

House justice panel chairperson Rep. Gerville “Jinky” Luistro (Batangas) was also careful to say that the numbers are not from the AMLC’s own investigation. They come from 630 covered transaction reports and 33 suspicious transaction reports that banks are required to file with the council.