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Former Commission on Audit (COA) state auditor Roderick Wamil testifies as a prosecution witness before the Senate Impeachment Court at the Senate of the Philippines in Pasay City on Monday, August 3, 2026, during the presentation of evidence on Article 1 of the impeachment complaint against Vice President Sara Duterte, which alleges the misuse of confidential funds. Maria Tan, ABS-CBN News

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<div><img src="https://od2-image-api.abs-cbn.com/prod/editorImage/178574357278420260803-senate-impeachment-day11-roderick-wamil-MT11.jpg" style="width:960px" class="fr-fic fr-dib" width="960"/>Former Commission on Audit (COA) state auditor Roderick Wamil testifies as a prosecution witness before the Senate Impeachment Court at the Senate of the Philippines in Pasay City on Monday, August 3, 2026, during the presentation of evidence on Article 1 of the impeachment complaint against Vice President Sara Duterte, which alleges the misuse of confidential funds. Maria Tan, ABS-CBN News  </div>MANILA — An acknowledgment receipt indicating a payment from the Office of the Vice President (OVP) to a certain &quot;Mary Grace Piattos&quot; was presented on Monday during the Senate impeachment trial. House lawmakers earlier flagged the name during their impeachment hearings involving Vice President Sara Duterte, suggesting it was &quot;fictitious,&quot; noting how the surname is identical to that of a popular local snack brand.The acknowledgment receipt (AR) for the payment made to Piattos was among the documents presented before the Senate impeachment court as it heard allegations that Duterte misused confidential funds — one of the four articles of impeachment against her. It was presented before witness Roderick Wamil, a former auditor at the Commission on Audit&#x27;s Intelligence and Confidential Funds Audit Office (COA-ICFAO).<div><img src="https://od2-image-api.abs-cbn.com/prod/editorImage/1785742958576Screenshot 2026-08-03 152209.png" style="width:960px" class="fr-fic fr-dib" width="960"/>An acknowledgement receipt indicating payment to a &#x27;Mary Grace Piattos&#x27; is presented before the Senate impeachment court, August 3, 2026. Screenshot from ABS-CBN News on YouTube</div>Wamil confirmed that it was among the acknowledgment receipts he examined while auditing the OVP&#x27;s P125 million in confidential funds for the period of December 21 to 31, 2022.&quot;This AR po is among the acknowledgment receipts submitted by the OVP to ICFAO,&quot; Wamil said.The receipt showed that Piattos received P70,000 for &quot;Payment of Reward (Medicine).&quot; Wamil said he could not determine whether this meant Piattos had received medicine as the reward, prompting his office to ask the OVP to submit additional supporting documents.Wamil said his office did not check whether Piattos was a real person.&quot;Since what we do is compliance audit, ang nagiging basehan ng audit ay kung ano &#x27;yong nakalagay, pine-prescribe ng Joint Circular 2015-01,&quot; he said, referring to the document that provides guidelines in auditing confidential funds.&quot;Pero doon sa joint circular naman po kasi, hindi naman nakalagay doon na kailangang tingnan naming &#x27;yong recipient ng payment,&quot; he said.Another acknowledgment receipt showed a payment of P110,000 to Renan Piattos for the &quot;Purchase of Information.&quot; The receipt was dated December 2023, which Wamil noted was beyond the coverage of the December 2022 disbursement period.&quot;Based on this document, &#x27;yong date of payment ay hindi pasok doon sa coverage ng kanilang cash advance,&quot; he said.The Philippine Statistics Authority earlier said it found <a href="https://www.abs-cbn.com/news/nation/2026/4/14/psa-reiterates-it-has-no-records-of-mary-grace-piattos-kokoy-villamin-2046">no birth, marriage or death records for a person named &quot;Mary Grace Piattos.&quot;</a> Duterte&#x27;s camp, however, has maintained that the name could have been a pseudonym.<div>MARY GRACE PIATTOS AS WITNESS?  </div>The prosecution said it has yet to decide whether Piattos will be called to the witness stand in the succeeding days of the impeachment trial.“Siguro surprise na lang muna. Depende po yan kung anong magiging takbo ng trial na ito,” House prosecutor Rep. Joel Chua told reporters after the 11th day of the impeachment trial. House prosecution spokesperson Rep. Zia Alonto Adiong, meanwhile, said that even if the names appearing on the acknowledgment receipts were pseudonyms, the identities of the actual recipients should still have been disclosed to the COA-ICFAO.“These are things that should not be hidden from ICFAO… those people who have received these funds or these amounts are real people though they seem to hide in pseudonym for the purpose of protecting their identity, pero not to keep this hidden from ICFAO,” he added.Meanwhile, defense spokesperson Michael Poa said he did not know the identity of Mary Grace Piattos and did not want to speculate on her possible relation to Renan Piattos.“Factual lang din naman yung nangyari kanina. Lumalabas lang naman din yung naging COA findings, we&#x27;ll stick with what COA knows,” said Poa.He added that the use of aliases could be tackled in future trial hearings but said that he did not want to preempt whatever the prosecution would present before the impeachment court. <div><iframe width="640" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/V4sNscpJ6Pw?&amp;wmode=opaque&amp;rel=0" frameBorder="0" allowfullscreen="" class="fr-draggable"></iframe><iframe width="640" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/6B_X_xBIGX4?&amp;wmode=opaque&amp;rel=0" frameBorder="0" allowfullscreen="" class="fr-draggable"></iframe> </div>

An acknowledgment receipt indicating a payment from the Office of the Vice President (OVP) to a certain 'Mary Grace Piattos' was presented on Monday during the Senate impeachment trial.

An acknowledgment receipt indicating a payment from the Office of the Vice President (OVP) to a certain 'Mary Grace Piattos' was presented on Monday during the Senate impeachment trial.

OVP receipt for 'Mary Grace Piattos' reaches Senate trial

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OVP receipt for 'Mary Grace Piattos' reaches Senate trial

Jaehwa Bernardo,

Allison Co,

Johnson Manabat,

ABS-CBN News

Published August 03, 2026 03:56 PM PHT

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Updated August 03, 2026 04:56 PM PHT

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