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#VPonTrial: Day 22

Victoria Tulad

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<div><iframe width="640" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ymjhaP702ik?autoplay=1&wmode=opaque&rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="" class="fr-draggable"></iframe> </div>Today is the 22nd day of the impeachment trial of Vice President Sara Duterte. The Senate impeachment court will continue to hear article 1 on the alleged misuse, questionable liquidation, and systematic misappropriation of confidential funds of Duterte.Former DepEd special disbursing officer Edward Fajarda is unlikely to appear today after receiving doctor&rsquo;s instructions to take 30 days of rest following a stroke on the lower back side of his brain, impeachment prosecutor Rep. Joel Chua said.<div> </div>2:10 p.m. - Grande is excused from the witness stand.&nbsp;2:05 p.m.&nbsp;- Escudero asks Divinagracia why they did not submit to PSA all the acknowledgment receipts of the OVP and DepED.&nbsp;Divinagracia says this is because some were unreadable and some only had signatures. 1:51 p.m.&nbsp;- Senator-judge and Senate President Win Gatchalian asks Grande -- Does a person exist if he does not have a birth, marriage or death certificate? Grande says it is possible but there is a &quot;very slim chance.&quot;&nbsp; 1:45 p.m.&nbsp;-&nbsp;Divinagracia ends her redirect examination. Gular says he has nothing to recross. Trial proceeds to the intervention of senator-judges. 1:44 p.m.&nbsp;- Divinagracia asks Grande how frequent it is for the PSA to find out that 63% of names submitted to them by a government agency has no civil registry record.&nbsp;Grande says this is rare. 1:37 p.m.&nbsp;-&nbsp;Grande says as of 2024, around 97% of births have been registered; 3.3 million to 3.4 million births are unregistered. 1:37 p.m. - Divinagracia proceeds with her redirect examination. 1:27 p.m.&nbsp;- According to Grande, she doest not know if the names they checked are aliases or not or if these names belong to real persons.&nbsp;She says she can only attest to the availability of the records. 1:24 p.m.&nbsp;-&nbsp;Grande says the only list of aliases that the PSA keeps are those which are judicially approved. 1:21 p.m.&nbsp;- Gular asks Grande if they consulted Traya and other individuals named in the acknowledgment receipts for the disclosure of their personal information. Grande replies that they did not. She explains there is no violation of the Data Privacy Act because section 13F of the law says information can be released if there is a legitimate purpose such as the investigation being conducted by the legislature. 1:15 p.m.&nbsp;-&nbsp;Grande clarifies that they are testifying to the availability of a person&#39;s record in their system, not to the existence or non-existence of that person. 1:11 p.m.&nbsp;-&nbsp;Grande confirms that the House of Representatives provided the list of 677 and 1,992 payees. 1:07 p.m.&nbsp;- Gular asks Grande if clerical errors can affect a search in the PSA&#39;s database.&nbsp;Grande says not exactly because their system is flexible to find all possible entries related to a particular name.&nbsp;Gular, however, points to a transcript of an April 14, 2026 House Committee on Justice hearing where Grande said, &quot;I cannot say na 100 percent accurate iyong negative results.&quot;&nbsp;The witness confirms this statement. 1:02 p.m.&nbsp;-&nbsp;Grande also says there is late registration of births, marriages and deaths. 1 p.m.&nbsp;-&nbsp;Grande confirms that not all births, marriages, and deaths are recorded in the Civil Registry System (CRS). 12:53 a.m.&nbsp;-&nbsp;Gular proceeds with his cross-examination of Grande. 12:51 p.m.&nbsp;-&nbsp;Trial resumes. 12:03 p.m. - Trial goes on lunch break and will resume at 12:45 p.m.12:03 p.m.&nbsp;-&nbsp;Senator-Judge Raffy Tulfo stresses the need to call to the witness stand former OVP Security Officer Col. Raymund Lachica and former DepEd Security Officer Col. Dennis Nolasco to talk about the acknowledgment receipts. 11:54 a.m.&nbsp;-&nbsp;Divinagracia ends her direct examination of Grande. 11:53 a.m.&nbsp;-&nbsp;Another alleged payee is a certain Mikay Delos Reyes who was born on January 13, 2020 but whose name appears in an acknowledgment receipt dated March 27, 2023. 11:51 a.m.&nbsp;-&nbsp;One of the minors in the OVP list is Beatrice Cuenca who was born on January 7, 2022 and supposedly signed an acknowledgment receipt on March 14, 2023. 11:49 a.m.&nbsp;- Grande adds that there were 20 minors in the OVP list of payees, and five minors in the DepEd list. 11:48 a.m.&nbsp;-&nbsp;According to Grande, Emilio Sagan has been dead seven years in 2022, while Fortunato Salig has been dead 11 years in 2022. 11:41 a.m.&nbsp;-&nbsp;Those who have death certificates, upon reverification, were Fortunato Salig, Emilio Sagan, and Rodolfo Traya. 11:36 a.m.&nbsp;-&nbsp;Upon reverification, Grande says they found out that 32 names under the OVP list already had death certificates, while five from the DepEd list already had death certificates. 11:33 a.m.&nbsp;- Grande, meanwhile, says they found marriage certificates for the following payees of the OVP and DepEd upon reverification - Adonis Mascari&ntilde;as, Anselmo Sta. Cruz, Joel Mataflorida, Paulo Fernan, and Ramil Dabon. 11:17 a.m.&nbsp;-&nbsp;The PSA also did not find any record of birth, marriage and death for the payees Tomas Panda, Timon Angelo Pusa, and Tina Maching. 11:15 a.m.&nbsp;- Grande says she found some names in the OVP list unusual such as Arthur Baon, Beverly Claire Pampano, Mathew N. Keso, Maxine Callos, and Charles Sampaloc Jr. who have no record of birth, marriage and death. 11:10 a.m.&nbsp;-&nbsp;Of the 1,992 OVP payees, 1,287 had no record of birth, marriage or death, 1,322 had no certificate of live birth, 1,456 had no certificate of marriage, and 1,593 had no certificate of death.<div><img src="https://od2-image-api.abs-cbn.com/prod/editorImage/1788750758771DAY 22 IMAGE4.jpeg" style="width: 960px;" class="fr-fic fr-dib" width="960">Photo courtesy: Senate11:04 a.m.&nbsp;-&nbsp;The PSA found out that of the 677 DepEd payees, 398 had no birth, marriage or death certificates, 405 had no certificate of live birth, 443 had no certificate of marriage, and 507 had no certificate of death.</div><div><img src="https://od2-image-api.abs-cbn.com/prod/editorImage/1788750699072DAY 22 IMAGE3.jpeg" style="width: 960px;" class="fr-fic fr-dib" width="960">Photo courtesy: Senate11 a.m.&nbsp;-&nbsp;The PSA, according to Grande, also verified the existence of civil registry documents of 677 DepEd payees and 1,992 Office of the Vice President (OVP) payees, as requested by the House of Representatives&#39; Committee on Good Government and Public Accountability in December 2024. </div>10:57 a.m.&nbsp;- Grande: &quot;Based po sa aming CRS database, wala pong nagngangalang Mary Grace Piattos sa amin pong record.&quot; 10:55 a.m.&nbsp;- Grande says they received a request from Chua, the Chairperson of the House Committee on Good Government and Public Accountability, in November 2024 to verify the civil registry documents of a certain Mary Grace Piattos.&nbsp;She says they did not find any record of birth, marriage, and death of Piattos and thus issued a certification regarding this. 10:41 a.m.&nbsp;-&nbsp;One of the points Divinagracia wants to prove from Grande&#39;s testimony is that 1,685 of 2,669 alleged payees of confidential funds have no birth, no marriage, and no death record. 10:38 a.m.&nbsp;-&nbsp;Marizza Grande, Assistant National Statistician of the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA), is called to the witness stand. 10:37 a.m.&nbsp;-&nbsp;Atty. Mae Divinagracia, counsel for the prosecutors, and Atty. Justin Nicol Gular, counsel for the respondent and deputy spokesperson of the defense team, are recognized. 10:33 a.m.&nbsp;- The request for stipulation concludes. Robles says they will still decide within the day if they will withdraw the subpoena for Fajarda. 10:27 a.m.&nbsp;- Atty. Lindon Bacquel, counsel for the respondent, proposes to use the word &quot;disbursed&quot; instead of &quot;turned over&quot; on the third request for stipulation.&nbsp;Robles does not agree because there is allegedly no showing of document evidencing payment.&nbsp;Senator-judge and Presiding Officer Francis Escudero says the court will appreciate the distinction between the preferred words of both parties later on, and proposes to say that DepEd Security Officer Col. Dennis &quot;Nolasco received the funds.&quot;Both counsels agree.<div><img src="https://od2-image-api.abs-cbn.com/prod/editorImage/1788748242273DAY 22 IMAGE2.jpeg" style="width: 960px;" class="fr-fic fr-dib" width="960">Photo courtesy: Senate10:13 a.m.&nbsp;- Counsel for the panel of prosecutors Atty. Reynaldo Robles asks the defense to stipulate on matters regarding Fajarda, including his encashment of three checks for DepEd&#39;s confidential funds amounting to P37.5 million each in 2023.&nbsp;</div><div><img src="https://od2-image-api.abs-cbn.com/prod/editorImage/1788747434210DAY 22 IMAGE1.jpeg" style="width: 960px;" class="fr-fic fr-dib" width="960">Photo courtesy: Senate10:09 a.m.&nbsp;- House Prosecutor Rep. Joel Chua says they received information from the camp of former Department of Education (DepEd) Special Disbursing Officer (SDO) Edward Fajarda regarding his medical condition.&nbsp;</div>Chua has said that Fajarda&#39;s doctor advised him to rest for another 30 days after suffering from a mild stroke and thus cannot attend today&#39;s trial. 10:06 a.m.&nbsp;- Fifteen senator-judges are present; quorum is declared. 10:01 a.m.&nbsp;-&nbsp;House prosecutor Rep. Joel Chua says former Department of Education (DepEd) Special Disbursing Officer Edward Fajarda will not be attending today&rsquo;s trial after his doctor issued a medical report advising him to rest for another 30 days after suffering from a mild stroke. 10 a.m. - The Senate impeachment trial court convenes. Senator-judge Bam Alan Peter Cayetano leads the prayer.<div> </div><div><a href="https://www.abs-cbn.com/news/nation/2026/9/7/impeach-trial-day-22-deped-witness-needs-30-day-rest-psa-exec-to-testify-0925">LIVE UPDATES: Vice President Sara Duterte&#39;s Impeachment Trial (Day 21)</a></div><div> </div><div>Refresh this page for the latest updates on the impeachment trial of the vice president.</div>

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Victoria Tulad,

Sherwin Tinampay,

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Published September 07, 2026 09:55 AM PHT

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Updated September 07, 2026 02:30 PM PHT

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