LIVE UPDATES: Sara Duterte impeachment trial | Oct. 7, 2026
MANILA, Philippines – The Senate impeachment court on Wednesday is set to hear from representatives of several banks on the financial records of Vice President Sara Duterte and her husband, lawyer Manases Carpio, as the prosecution presents evidence in support of its allegations of unexplained wealth.
The witnesses are expected to testify on at least 30 bank accounts across eight banks, with the prosecution claiming the accounts had combined ending balances of more than P190 million that were not declared in Duterte’s SALN.
READ: Highlights: Day 34 of Sara Duterte impeachment trial | Oct. 6, 2026
- On Tuesday, Land Bank of the Philippines R. Magsaysay Branch Manager Raquel dela Cerna testified that Carpio maintained an active account at the branch. She said the account’s year-end balances from 2022 to 2025 were P505,517.35, P953,681.42, P115,824.20 and P1,358,373.07, respectively.
- Davao Toril Branch Manager Arcy James Gonzales, Davao Tagum Branch Manager Edeli Umayam, and Ortigas Ave. Greenhills Branch Manager Jerilee Mae C. Sanidad are expected to testify.
- Branch Operations Department Head Irene Joy Ishida is scheduled to take the stand.
- Anti-Money Laundering Division Head Atty. Niña Feren Aguilar is expected to testify.
- Branch Banking Group Head Leslie Cham is also set to appear before the impeachment court.
- Central Manila Branches Division Head Marwin Galvez is expected to present records.
- Davao San Pedro CM Recto Branch Manager Julius Parian is among the scheduled witnesses.
- Branch Regulatory Support Senior AVP Mario Cirilo De Mesa Jr., Consumer Banking Group Vice President Merian Manoguid, and Trust and Investment Group Senior Vice President Patricia Lei Alvarillo are expected to testify.
- After the bank representatives, Chief Legal and Compliance Officer lawyer Juan Sotero Roman is expected to become the first insurance company representative to take the witness stand. /dp
The 35th day of Vice President Sara Duterte’s impeachment trial suspended at 7:25 pm after nine and a half hours and 15 witnesses. #VPonTrial | @keithcINQ
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BDO Securities Corporation representative Janet Amora takes the witness stand in the impeachment trial of Vice President Sara Duterte. #VPonTrial | @AprBenjaminINQ
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BDO Life Assurance Company representative Joel De Jesus takes the witness stand in the impeachment trial of Vice President Sara Duterte. #VPonTrial | @AprBenjaminINQ
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Allianz PNB Life representative Hygeia Defensor takes the witness stand in the impeachment trial of Vice President Sara Duterte. #VPonTrial | @AprBenjaminINQ
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BPI AIA Philippines representative Christine Cabradilla testifies that Atty. Mans Carpio took out a dollar-denominated insurance investment on February 13, 2013, with a $30,000 single-payment premium. #VPonTrial | @AprBenjaminINQ
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BPI AIA Philippines representative Christine Cabradilla takes the witness stand in the impeachment trial of Vice President Sara Duterte. #VPonTrial | @AprBenjaminINQ
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PRU Life representative Calvin Kohchet Chua takes the witness stand in the impeachment trial of Vice President Sara Duterte. #VPonTrial | @AprBenjaminINQ
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Manulife Philippines representative Malu Salanguit takes the witness stand in the impeachment trial of Vice President Sara Duterte. #VPonTrial | @AprBenjaminINQ
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“We are here to determine the financial needs of the client, Your Honor.”
A light moment at the impeachment trial as FWD Life Insurance representative Atty. Juan Sotero Roman is asked about Atty. Mans Carpio’s insurance policy dated May 16, 2024.
Roman says Carpio paid a P10.6-million premium for a sum assured of P13.25-million.
House prosecutor Rep. Lordan Suan asks if a client can purchase an insurance policy by paying millions in a single transaction. Roman says yes.
Presiding Officer Francis Escudero says, “Mas gusto niyo nga ‘yon. Ano ang mas gusto niyo, malaki ang premium o mababa ang premium?”
Roman replies: “We are here to determine the financial needs of the client, Your Honor.”
The exchange draws laughter in court. #VPonTrial | @AprBenjaminINQ
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Senator-Judge Robin Padilla questions why former President Rodrigo Duterte’s name has been brought up as the prosecution examines his joint bank account with Vice President Sara Duterte. #VPonTrial
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LOOK: Total year-end balances from bank accounts identified under Vice President Sara Duterte and Atty. Mans Carpio. #VPonTrial | @AprBenjaminINQ
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Vice President Sara Duterte has “no knowledge, participation, or recollection” of the BPI joint account with her father, former president Sara Duterte, says defense counsel Michael Poa. #VPonTrial
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BDO witness Mario Cirilo De Mesa Jr. testified that two debit transactions on Aug. 6, 2024, involved {8 million and P15 million debited from an account identified as belonging to Atty. Mans Carpio.
The prosecution noted that on the same date, Carpio also made four cash withdrawals totaling P18 million from a PNB account. #VPonTrial | @AprBenjaminINQ
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BDO official Mario Cirilo De Mesa Jr. testifies that Atty. Mans Carpio has 3 active checking and savings accounts and one active time deposit.
He also says Vice President Sara Duterte has one active savings account, while another account under her name is closed.
De Mesa also confirms 3 active joint checking and savings accounts involving Duterte and Carpio.
For 888 Bistro, he says BDO has two checking accounts. Presiding officer clarifies that 888 Bistro is a sole proprietorship, not a corporation. #VPonTrial | @AprBenjaminINQ
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Vice President Sara Duterte’s signature does not appear in transaction documents of BPI accounts under her name and her father, former president Rodrigo Duterte, says Presiding Officer Francis Escudero. #VPonTrial
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Philippine National Bank Davao San Pedro-CM Recto Branch Manager Julius Parian testifies that Atty. Mans Carpio has 5 accounts with the bank, including four savings accounts and one time deposit. #VPonTrial | @AprBenjaminINQ
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Duterte trial: Sammy Uy among payees in checks presented before court
Sara Duterte not a signatory to P41-M manager’s checks – BPI docs
WATCH: BPI rep details year-end balances of Dutertes, Carpio accounts
‘HINDI KO ALAM BA’T KAILANGAN PANG I-DAMAY YUNG MATANDA’
Senator-judge Robin Padilla questioned why former President Rodrigo Duterte’s name kept coming up as the impeachment court continued to tackle the alleged unexplained wealth of Vice President Sara Duterte. #VPonTrial
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‘ANG TINUTURO NI VP SARA AY ANG KANYANG AMA?’
Atty. Michael Poa clarified that Vice President Sara Duterte said she has no recollection of, or participation in, the transactions involving the P41-million manager’s check tied to her joint account with her father, former President Rodrigo Duterte, who was the only signatory on the application forms. #VPonTrial
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Public prosecutor and Bicol Saro party-list Rep. Terry Ridon on COA’s decision to affirm with finality the notice of disallowance on the P73 million confidential funds under the Office of the Vice President in 2022:
“Madam Vice President, pakisoli na yung pera. Shukran.” | @GabrielLaluINQ
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BPI witness Marwin Galvez explains that when a manager’s check is issued, the amount is deducted from the purchaser’s account and transferred to the bank’s manager’s-check settlement account.
The prosecution alleged that the funds were “floated” in the settlement account so they would not appear in the account holder’s year-end balance. #VPonTrialFollow our live updates here: https://t.co/cQY2Cdjbnm
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‘NO RECOLLECTION’ OF BPI ACCOUNTS
Defense counsel Michael Poa explains that his February 2026 letter to BPI asked the bank to confirm whether the accounts under her name and former president Rodrigo Duterte existed.
The letter said VP Duterte had “no knowledge, participation, or recollection” of maintaining or having any beneficial interest in the accounts.
Poa says VP only became aware of the BPI accounts when it was brought up during House hearing.
Poa also said he did not want the inquiry to prejudice former President Rodrigo Duterte or his counsel from raising their own legal defenses regarding the accounts. #VPonTrial | @AprBenjaminINQ
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Prosecution seeks to show Dutertes hid P96M via unused manager’s checks
Senate vote threshold ruling questioned anew in SC by Duterte allies
‘ALAM MO NA?’
Presiding Officer Francis “Chiz” Escudero shared a light moment with Senate President Win Gatchalian as BPI Central Metro Manila Branches Division Head Marwin Galvez confirmed that even married couples cannot ask the bank about an individual account held solely in their spouse’s name. #VPonTrial
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Prosecution’s bid to ask BPI about Duterte’s foreign accounts blocked
VP DUTERTE DID NOT SIGN BPI DOCS: ESCUDERO
Presiding Officer Francis Escudero, responding to a query from defense counsel Michael Poa, said VP Sara Duterte’s signature does not appear in any of the transaction documents included in BPI’s inventory of pre-marked exhibits.
These include documents on the opening and closing of time deposits, requests for manager’s checks, and similar transactions. #VPonTrial | @AprBenjaminINQ
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DAY 35
LOOK: Bank of the Philippine Islands (BPI) Central Metro Manila Branches Division Head Marwin Galvez takes his oath as a prosecution witness during the impeachment trial of Vice President Sara Duterte at the Senate of the Philippines in Pasay City on Wednesday, October 7.
Galvez was called to testify regarding financial and deposit records maintained with BPI as the House prosecution panel presented representatives from various banking institutions. #VPonTrial |
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Castro: ‘Bank records do not lie’ in Sara Duterte impeachment trial
Carpio’s firm closed 2 bank accounts in July, impeachment court told
‘P41.7-M HINDI NAKIKITA SA YEAR-END BALANCE KASI NAKA-FLOAT SIYA’
BPI witness Marwin Galvez testified that a deposit with a P40.65-million principal was opened on Jan. 22, 2010, under the name of Rodrigo Duterte, or Rodrigo Roa Duterte and Sara Duterte.
Galvez said the deposit had 12 rollovers, with the last rollover dated Feb. 11, 2011, reaching P41,721,035.42. The settlement account was BPI account ending 9539 at the Julia Vargas branch.
A manager’s check was bought on March 9, 2011, for the same amount. Galvez says the manager’s check has a validity of 6 months.
An October 2011 credit and debit memo shows the manager’s check as unutilized.
Defense objects on the grounds of relevance.
Prosecution counsel James Alih said he is trying to establish a pattern involving a P41.7-million manager’s check and a separate P55-million time deposit that was also converted into a manager’s check, which ran simultaneously.
“‘Yung manager’s check na pinapaikot, hindi nakikita sa year-end balance kasi naka-float po siya.” #VPonTrial | @AprBenjaminINQ
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Senator-judge Risa Hontiveros asks Metrobank Anti-Money Laundering Division head Atty. Niña Feren Aguilar about the bank’s process for filing suspicious transaction reports (STRs).
Aguilar says STRs undergo review by the bank’s AML division and require her approval before they are filed with the AMLC. #VPonTrial
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BPI Central Metro Manila Branches Division Head Marwin Galvez testified that Vice President Sara Duterte and her husband, Atty. Mans Carpio, have seven active individual deposit accounts, two credit cards, and one corporate account with BPI.
Galvez also said BPI’s records show 34 closed individual accounts belonging to Duterte and Carpio, covering records from Jan. 1, 2007, to Dec. 31, 2025. #VPonTrial | @AprBenjaminINQ
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NUJP: Lawyer’s ‘unintended’ intimidation can’t curtail rights
Sara Duterte trial: Witness reveals CALE88, Gencorp balances, 2022-2025
More bank accounts of VP Duterte, husband presented before impeach court
Negative media, gossip not lone basis for STR, says witness
CALE88 ACCOUNTS CLOSED IN JULY 2026
Security Bank Branch Banking Group Head Leslie Cham said Cale88 Foods Corp. had two peso checking accounts with the institution, which opened in August 2024 and October 2025, respectively, but both were recently closed in July 2026.
Senator-judgePangilinan said it would also be worth examining Cale88’s transactions, noting that the company associated with Atty. Manases Carpio received P319.3 million in remittances, based on an AMLC report, and that the accounts were opened while Vice President Sara Duterte was already in office. #VPonTrial
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WATCH: Metrobank reviews clients’ transactions after negative reports
WATCH: PSBank witness identifies Duterte, Carpio accounts
Senator-judge Francis Pangilinan asked Security Bank official Leslie Cham about GenCorp’s eight peso accounts, all of which Cham said remain active.
Cham provided the year-end balances of the accounts from 2022 to 2025, where available. The accounts were opened between 2020 and 2025. #VPonTrial | @AprBenjaminINQ
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Senator-judge Francis Pangilinan asked Security Bank official Leslie Cham about Cale88 Food Corp.’s peso accounts after Cham said he could not disclose information on its foreign currency deposits.
Cham testified that Cale88 had two peso checking accounts, both of which were closed in July 2026. One account was opened in August 2024, while the other was opened in October 2025.
Pangilinan said it would be useful to examine the accounts’ transactions, including deposits and withdrawals, amid an AMLA report citing P319 million in transactions from China. Cham said he did not have the day-to-day transaction reports with him. #VPonTrial | @AprBenjaminINQ
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‘HINDI BASED SA TSISMIS?’
Metrobank Anti-Money Laundering Division head Atty. Niña Feren Aguilar said the bank conducts further review before filing suspicious transaction reports (STRs) based on negative news reports involving their clients.
Aguilar added that STRs must go through her office and require her approval before they reach AMLC. #VPonTrial
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Security Bank Branch Banking Group Head Leslie Cham testified that Atty. Mans Carpio has two accounts with the bank, only one of which remains active.
He says Vice President Sara Duterte does not maintain an account with Security Bank.
Cham also said he was not in a position to confirm whether Cale88 Food Corp. maintains a foreign currency deposit account with Security Bank. #VPonTrial | @AprBenjaminINQ
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WATCH: AUB branch manager takes witness stand in impeachment trial
Metrobank Anti-Money Laundering Division Head Atty. Niña Aguilar said their bank reports suspicious transactions not through negative media alone, but also after “further review” based on guidelines. #VPonTrial | @keithcINQ
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Metrobank Anti-Money Laundering Division head Atty. Niña Feren Aguilar testifies that VP Sara Duterte, Atty. Mans Carpio and their minor children have six Metrobank accounts, three of which are active.
Aguilar identifies the three active accounts and provides their year-end balances from 2022 to 2025, including a joint account under Duterte and Carpio, an account under Duterte, and an account belonging to one of their minor children. #VPonTrial | @AprBenjaminINQ
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‘IT’S NOT THE VICE PRESIDENT?’
Asia United Bank (AUB) Davao-Toril Branch Manager Arcy James Gonzales confirmed that Atty. Manases Carpio has two bank accounts, with his second account shared with another person, which Gonzales also clarified is not Vice President Sara Duterte.
The ending balances in 2024 for the two accounts were P456,352.28 and P867,291.90, respectively, and P0 and P871,998.77 in 2025, respectively. #VPonTrial
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Prosecution presents PSBank branch operations head Irene Joy Ishida.
Ishida testifies that VP Sara Duterte and her husband, Atty. Mans Carpio, have 10 accounts with the bank, four of which are active.
Ishida identifies accounts under Duterte and Carpio and provides their year-end balances from 2022 to 2025. #VPonTrial | @AprBenjaminINQ
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The House prosecution panel dispensed of the presentation of AUB Davao Tagum Branch Manager Edeli Umayam, Ortigas Ave. Greenhills Branch Manager Jerilee Mae C. Sanidad, citing that the bank accounts they were meant to testify on are already closed. #VPonTrial | @keithcINQ
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Arcy James Gonzales, manager of the Asian United Bank – Davao Toril Branch, takes the stand as prosecution’s witness for Article II, which alleges unexplained wealth. #VPonTrial | @AprBenjaminINQ
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DAY 35: The impeachment trial of Vice President Sara Duterte resumes on Wednesday, October 7.
A quorum has been declared, with 14 senator-judges present. #VPonTrial | @AprBenjaminINQ
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‘MAGANDANG UMAGA MADAM VICE PRESIDENT. KAYA NIYO PA BA?’
WATCH: House prosecutor Rep. Terry Ridon tells the media what to expect on the 35th day of Vice President Sara Duterte’s trial. #VPonTrial | @bellepechayINQ
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