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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><br/><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 — The husband of Vice President Sara Duterte, lawyer Manases &quot;Mans&quot; Carpio, filed complaints on 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 is set to lodge the legal action against Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas Governor Eli Remolona Jr., AMLC Executive Director Ronel Buenaventura, as well as House Committee on Justice Chair Gerville Luistro of Batangas and Reps. Percival Cendaña and Chel Diokno of ebayan party-list and Leila de Lima of Mamamayang Liberal party-list.</p><p>Carpio earlier said the respondents &quot;connived to illegally disclose and divulge classified confidential banking records&quot; protected under Philippine laws.</p><p>His added that the AMLC and the House Committee on Justice &quot;leaked various private record of transactions, expanding to insurance payments, time deposits, investments and utility bill payments.&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>Carpio <a 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>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><div><em>More details to follow.</em></div><div><strong>—With reports from Marilyn Cahatol, ABS-CBN News</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 on on Monday 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 on on Monday 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

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