House panel to verify VP Sara's alleged wealth using bank records

The House justice panel is set to tackle allegations of unexplained wealth against Vice President Sara Duterte, using bank transactions expected to be submitted by the Anti-Money Laundering Council (AMLC) on April 22. 

“We intend to focus, for the next hearing, on the allegations of unexplained wealth. The Ombudsman, the SEC and the BIR…these three agencies along with Senator Trillanes, along with the AMLC, will be the one to be asked for purposes of a clarificatory hearing this April 22, 2026,” committee on justice chairperson Rep. Gerville Luistro said in a press conference.

Earlier, the panel approved the subpoena for the AMLC, directing it to produce reports of covered bank transactions and suspicious transactions reported by any banks to the AMLC involving the Vice President or her husband, Mans Carpio, from 2006 to 2025.

The allegations of accumulating unexplained wealth are included in the two impeachment complaints lodged against the Vice President pending before the panel.

AMLC reports

The same subpoena also ordered the AMLC to submit all investigation reports or related reports or documents prepared by the AMLC involving covered transactions or suspicious transactions, and in the event that no such record exists, to certify the same. 

Finally, the subpoena said the AMLC should submit these documents to the House justice panel on or before April 22, 2026 to allow prior review.

The motion for the AMLC subpoena was made by Akbayan party-list Rep. Percival Cendaña.

House Deputy Minority Leader Jose Manuel Diokno of Akbayan party-list initially wanted to amend Cendaña’s motion to include all members of the Vice President’s immediate family.

The House justice panel, however, ultimately decided to limit the subpoena to the Vice President and her husband.

“We would want to limit the information that we will get from the AMLC because of the coercive power of the [impeachment] inquiry. It only covers bank transactions. What is the relevancy of these transactions? They are relevant because these are the records that will be compared with the net worth of the Vice President,” Bicol party-list Rep. Terry Ridon said.

“The net worth of the Vice President as stated in the SALN can be built from the assets of Atty. Mans and the Vice President, so there is no need to include bank transactions of other people outside of their spouses,” he added.

The repository of the SALN of the Vice President is the Office of the Ombudsman, currently headed by Ombudsman Jesus Crispin Remulla., who has earlier said that they will comply with the House justice panel's subpoena for the Vice President's SALN in all her years as a public official. —LDF, GMA News