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00:00Two officials of the Office of the Vice President are being contempted for listening to the House Committee on Good Government and Public Accountability
00:08which is advocating the use of OVP in the use of confidential funds.
00:12One of them will be detained in the camera and the other one in Bicutan, Taguig.
00:16Again, the unquestionably wrong acknowledgment receipts were revealed.
00:20Witness, Marisol Abdurrahman.
00:22On the left side, with black ink, that's from the OVP.
00:48On the left side, with black ink, that's from the OVP.
00:52On the other side, it's from DepEd.
00:56Can you please read the name on DepEd?
00:59It's the same, Mr. Chair.
01:01It's the same, right?
01:02Yes, Mr. Chair.
01:03It's very obvious, Mr. Chair, that not only Mary Grace Piatos,
01:07what we have seen is questionable.
01:10We also see that there are acknowledgment receipts, Mr. Chair,
01:15that have the same name,
01:17that the date is different,
01:19that their signature is different, Mr. Chair.
01:24The judges also analyzed how the former DepEd Special Disbursing Officer,
01:30Edward Fajarda, was able to disperse in many places in the country
01:33within one day on February 21, 2023.
01:37According to Congressman Royce Gutierrez,
01:39on February 21, 2023,
01:41one day after Fajarda was able to cash in P37.5 million,
01:46there were acknowledgment receipts
01:48that Fajarda was able to disperse in seven different places in the country.
01:52From Malolos, Davao, San Francisco, Agustin del Sur, Makati City,
01:56Negros Oriental, Negros Occidental, and Davao City.
01:59In passing, he cashed in,
02:01and immediately the next day, he traveled to these seven places
02:05and had these seven ARs.
02:07Did this not raise a red flag of the impossibility of this occurring?
02:11Well, it does, sir.
02:13And according to Congressman Royce Gutierrez,
02:15on March 15, Fajarda's disbursements reached 26
02:20in different places in Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao.
02:23Attorney Camora, let's give him a helicopter.
02:25I don't think he'll do that in one day.
02:29So it really raises a question.
02:31How did SDO Fajardo certify and say that he personally disbursed this?
02:36Camora wants to verify with the Philippine Statistic Authority
02:40if there are real people who signed the ARs.
02:43He will also refer them to the NBI and PNP to verify the signatures.
02:47Fajarda will tell the OVP officials that he did not hide his disbursement today
02:52despite the sight and contempt of the committee.
02:55Former Deputy Assistant Secretary Sunshine Chary Fajarda,
02:59OVP Special Disbursing Officer Gina Acosta,
03:02and Assistant Chief of Staff and Visa and Awards Committee Chair Lemuel Ortonio.
03:07Ortonio was again contempted by the committee
03:10and was ordered to be imprisoned in Bicutan for 10 days.
03:13Ortonio wrote that he was going to a hearing
03:16and asked to remove the contempt order against him, but he did not come.
03:24Vice President Sara Duterte did not hide his disbursement today.
03:28She said that she was just wasting her time
03:31because she did not ask why she came here.
03:34The vice president said that she did not misuse her confidential fund.
03:39This is also what the vice president said in her letter to the committee.
03:42But the committee said that they did not ask the vice president why she came here
03:46because she was not under oath.
03:48They also invited the vice president several times.
03:51The one who came to the hearing earlier,
03:53Chief of Staff of VP Sara is Ertina Zulaica Lopez.
03:57I am purely handling, as I mentioned, operational concerns.
04:02Although I would wish to answer really respectfully
04:05as regards the matter of the confidential expenses,
04:08it is something that I have not really been privy to from the very beginning.
04:14In the hearing, Lopez wrote to the Commission and Audit
04:18to tell them not to follow the order of the camera
04:21that is being submitted by the audit report about the confidential funds of the OVP.
04:26She said that Vice President Sara Duterte knows about this.
04:29That letter does not in any way seek to undermine the power of Congress.
04:35It is simply a request to the Commission of Audit
04:39given that there is still an ongoing audit investigation.
04:44That's why we requested that since the audit is not yet completed,
04:51it is not right to give such documents first.
04:57But Attorney Lopez, that is not a call for you to make, right?
05:03Precisely because you are the agency that is being investigated.
05:07You're asking another agency not to cooperate with Congress
05:12when an ongoing investigation is happening.
05:20I truly apologize if there was something in that letter
05:24that slighted you on a personal note.
05:27It was not my intention, Your Honor.
05:29And I would like to request to the members of the Honorable Committee
05:33to lift that contempt order or to reconsider
05:39and grant my request, Your Honor, not to cite me in contempt.
05:43We will have the next meeting on November 25, Mr. Chair.
05:47So I move until November 25.
05:51Which is on Monday.
05:54May we request the Sergeant-at-Arms to arrange a room
06:02here in the vicinity of the House of Representatives.
06:06At the press conference earlier,
06:08D.T. Sara looked to comment,
06:10cognizant of the acknowledgment receipts that were being questioned in the camera.
06:13According to D.C., he has not seen the said receipts
06:17because the litigation documents did not pass through him.
06:21He also said that the Vice-Committee will not provide an additional answer.
06:24It is up to the Congressmen to decide what to do.
06:27He also said that he did not stop the employees of the OVP
06:30from participating in the hearings.
06:32They said it was insufficient and they did not accept it.
06:34So I did not answer.
06:35I did not even try to make an affidavit.
06:39So they were just defeated by their antibiotics.
06:41They were just defeated by their kill.
06:43They were just defeated by their antibiotics.
06:47Will you attend the next hearing?
06:53Well, it remains to be seen, sir.
06:56In the current case-to-case basis,
06:58it depends on what is the proper invitation.
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