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For the second time since the impeachment trial began on Jan. 16, Senator Lito Lapid approached the podium to question a witness about the supposed bank documents of Chief Justice Renato Corona.

During the 20th day of the trial, Lapid asked PSBank Katipunan branch manager Anabelle Tiongson if there were cameras installed inside their bank's vault.

“Ms. Witness, may camera ba sa loob ng vault?” he asked.

Tiongson answered that there was no camera inside the vault but there was a camera installed “outside.”
 

Lapid then half-jokingly commented how “haggard” and tired she was.

“Pagod ka na ba? Parang haggard na haggard ka na? Nung [una kang tumestigo] tawa ka nang tawa,” the senator from Pampanga said.
 

Tiongson had said that she was suffering from a sore throat.

Proceeding with this questioning, Lapid asked whether the documents shown by Mindoro Rep. Reynaldo Umali and Quezon City Rep. Jorge “Bolet” Banal were indeed fake.

Tiongson noted that the documents were “different,” reiterating that she did not provide the prosecution with the documents.
 

“It is different [from our documents]. I did not give him [the documents] your honor,” came her reply.

Lapid then returned to his seat, saying:  “Yun lamang po Ginoong Pangulo, Maraming salamat po.”

Lapid first took the podium on February 1 to ask the prosecution on the difference between a loan and a cash advance. — Rouchelle Dinglasan/RSJ, GMA News