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Lawyer Maneses Carpio joins a Senate hearing, September 7, 2017.  George Calvelo, ABS-CBN News /File

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<div><span class="fr-img-caption fr-fic fr-dib" style="width:960px;display:block" width="960"><span class="fr-img-wrap"><img src="https://od2-image-api.abs-cbn.com/prod/editorImage/17772568947861777256891830.jpeg" style="width:960px" class="fr-fic fr-dib" width="960"/><span class="fr-inner" style="text-align:left">Lawyer Maneses Carpio joins a Senate hearing, September 7, 2017. <em>George Calvelo, ABS-CBN News /File</em></span></span></span></div><p>MANILA (<strong>2nd UPDATE</strong>) — The husband of Vice President Sara Duterte, lawyer Manases &quot;Mans&quot; Carpio, filed complaints on Monday against government officials over the disclosure of the couple&#x27;s bank records at a recent House hearing.</p><p>The Anti-Money Laundering Council (AMLC) revealed during last week&#x27;s House Committee on Justice hearing on the impeachment complaint against the Vice President that it had received reports of &quot;suspicious&quot; and &quot;covered&quot; bank transactions amounting to P6.77 billion linked to Duterte and Carpio during a period of nearly 20 years.</p><p>Carpio, through his legal counsel, sued Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) Governor Eli Remolona Jr., AMLC Executive Director Ronel Buenaventura, as well as House Committee on Justice chairperson Gerville Luistro of Batangas and Reps. Percival Cendaña and Chel Diokno of Akbayan party-list and Leila de Lima of Mamamayang Liberal party-list.</p><p>Peter Danao, lawyer for Carpio, argued Monday that the AMLC, under Section 8a of Anti-Money Laundering Act of 2001, cannot reveal any information obtained by their office &quot;in any manner.&quot;</p><p>&quot;So the law is clear: There is no exception, the prohibition is absolute,&quot; Danao told ANC.</p><p>The AMLC, he added, should first get a bank inquiry order from the Court of Appeals if it wanted to secure &quot;bank information.&quot;</p><div><span class="fr-video fr-deletable fr-fvc fr-dvb fr-draggable" contenteditable="false" draggable="true"><iframe src="https://www.facebook.com/plugins/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FabscbnNEWS%2Fposts%2Fpfbid02xe9gjHXUAQzkbCHpJfyQMzLVyfFg3PENxS7jKMKhbbxiYD2xSJfRaqqD3SD3JAt7l&amp;show_text=true&amp;width=500" width="500" height="667" style="border:none;overflow:hidden" scrolling="no" frameBorder="0" allowfullscreen="" class="fr-draggable"></iframe> </span></div><p>According to a <a class="fr-green fr-strong" href="https://www.bsp.gov.ph/Media_and_Research/Primers%20Faqs/Primer_on_Bank_Secrecy.pdf">BSP primer</a> on the secrecy of bank deposits, &quot;The General Banking Law of 2000 prohibits bank directors, officers, employees, or agents from disclosing to any unauthorized person, without order of a competent court, any information relative to funds or properties belonging to private individuals, corporations, or any other entity in the custody of the bank.&quot;</p><p>Carpio is not an impeachable officer, Danao also insisted, and that &quot;there should be a dichotomy between a private individual&#x27;s account and an impeachable officer&#x27;s account.&quot;</p><div> </div><div><strong>&#x27;PURE PROPAGANDA&#x27;</strong> </div><p>In his complaint, Carpio said the respondents &quot;criminally and feloniously&quot; publicized what he called &quot;alleged transaction reports&quot; without his consent and over his objection, &quot;for the world to see and hear for pure propaganda purposes.&quot;</p><p>He said the inclusion of years before Duterte took the vice presidency was meant to &quot;bloat and sensationalize for pure political proganda and harassment, the &#x27;transaction value&#x27; of our bank accounts, without providing the &#x27;detailed bases&#x27; of the AMLC Report.&quot;</p><p>&quot;Neither I nor my wife VP Sara has ever consented to the AMLC or any of its officers and staff to make public any transaction reports in relation to our bank accounts,&quot; he added.</p><p>Carpio <a class="fr-green fr-strong" href="https://www.abs-cbn.com/news/nation/2026/4/26/vp-sara-duterte-s-husband-to-file-raps-over-bank-secrecy-data-privacy-1151">over the weekend said</a> he was &quot;constrained to seek legal action in defense not only of his wife VP Sara and the Duterte family, but more so in defense of the banking and financial community especially the unwary general public.&quot;</p><p>He said bank records are confidential and protected under AMLA, and &quot;[e]ven the media is banned and may be criminally charged.&quot;</p><p>Danao told reporters on Monday that Carpio &quot;vehemently denies&quot; allegations linking him to the transactions.</p><p>He also said that they will comment on the AMLC report once they receive a copy of it, and refused to answer the accusation that members of the Duterte family supposedly received money from alleged drug lord Samuel Uy.</p><p>He also did not comment on the non-declaration of cash in the Vice President&#x27;s Statement of Assets, Liabilities, and Net Worth (SALN) from 2019 to 2024. </p><p>&quot;Atty. Carpio will not be in a position to answer those questions. Kasi nga, hindi naman siya parte ng impeachment proceeding,&quot; Danao said. &quot;Kaya kami nagtataka, bakit pilit na isinasama kami sa impeachment proceeding.&quot;</p><p>Carpio&#x27;s lawyers have previously filed a case for the non-disclosure of his tax returns before the Quezon City Regional Trial Court. Danao said they will inform the court in the event that the House Committee on Justice opens the box from the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) containing the income tax return of Carpio and Duterte, to determine if there is contempt or not. </p><p>Danao also called the House impeachment hearings a &quot;fishing expedition.&quot;</p><div><br/></div><div><strong>‘KARAPATAN NINUMAN’</strong></div><p>The Palace acknowledged Carpio’s right to file charges against government officials. </p><p>&quot;Karapatan po ninuman  na magsampa ng kaso. Ang tanong lamang po, kung ito ay magpo-prosper. So hindi na po hawak ng Palasyo at ng Pangulo kung ano ng magiging desisyon ng korte,&quot; Palace Press Officer Claire Castro said.</p><p>&quot;Ang mga korte po natin, ang mga judges natin, pati justices ay matatalino. So, alam po nila kung ano ang dapat na gamiting batas at papaano ito madi-dismiss o magkakaroon ng progress,&quot; she added.</p><div> </div><div><strong>&#x27;WALANG PAGLABAG&#x27;</strong> </div><p>Ahead of the filing of the complaint, De Lima said the House panel did not violate the law, noting that impeachment cases are not covered by the Secrecy of Bank Deposits Law and that only &quot;officers and employees of banks and banking institutions&quot; are barred from disclosure.</p><p>Manila Rep. Joel Chua, a member of the House Committee on Justice, has also said the House panel members and their witnesses &quot;enjoy immunity from prosecution under the Constitution,&quot; calling the filling of the complaint a &quot;diversionary tactic.&quot;</p><p>&quot;Maliwanag sa Bank Secrecy Law na ang bangko bawal maglabas ng data nila kung maliban na lamang tuwing impeachment proceeding…Ito pong nilalabas namin ay hindi bank account,&quot; he said in a statement.</p><p>&quot;Ang inilabas dito ay report ng AMLC, mga covered transactions at saka mga suspicious transactions. So maliwanag na wala pong paglabag. At dito sa AMLC ito ay bunga ng subpoena duces tecum na inilabas ng Kongreso. So maliwanag po na wala talagang batas na nilalabag dito.&quot;</p><p>Cendaña also asserted that there were no laws being violated, and told Duterte to face the April 29 hearing of the House panel and answer the allegations against her there.</p><p>&quot;Mas malinaw pa sa tanghaling tapat na Exception ang impeachment hearings sa coverage ng Bank Secrecy Law at Anti-Money Laundering Act,&quot; he said.</p><p>&quot;Nabisto kasi. Ganoon naman ang modus ng mga Duterte, pag nahuli, takbo sa korte.&quot;</p><p>The BSP meanwhile took note of the filing of the complaint.</p><p>&quot;The Governor has yet to receive a copy of the complaint and will respond appropriately upon receipt, before the proper forum,&quot; it said.</p><p>It stressed that the BSP and AMLC &quot;continue to perform their mandates in accordance with law, guided by independence, professionalism, and due process.&quot; </p><div><strong>—With reports from Victoria Tulad, Marilyn Cahatol and Jervis Manahan, ABS-CBN News</strong></div><div><br/></div><div><strong></strong><strong>RELATED VIDEO:</strong></div><div><em><span class="fr-video fr-deletable fr-fvc fr-dvb fr-draggable" contenteditable="false" draggable="true"><iframe width="640" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/GARW5BW9izU?&amp;wmode=opaque&amp;rel=0" frameBorder="0" allowfullscreen="" class="fr-draggable"></iframe></span><span class="fr-video fr-deletable fr-fvc fr-dvb fr-draggable" contenteditable="false" draggable="true"><iframe width="640" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Ix5RK69SSxY?&amp;wmode=opaque&amp;rel=0" frameBorder="0" allowfullscreen="" class="fr-draggable"></iframe></span></em><br/></div>

<p>The husband of Vice President Sara Duterte, lawyer Manases "Mans" Carpio, filed complaints against government officials over the disclosure of the couple's bank records at a recent House hearing.</p>

The husband of Vice President Sara Duterte, lawyer Manases "Mans" Carpio, filed complaints against government officials over the disclosure of the couple's bank records at a recent House hearing.

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Sara Duterte's husband files complaint vs gov't officials over disclosure of bank records

Rowegie Abanto,

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Published April 27, 2026 10:39 AM PHT

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