00:00Aside from the 2022 confidential and intel funds, the Office of the Vice President of 2023 also received a portion of the funds
00:08that has not yet been explained how it was spent according to the COA.
00:12Among them are food, medical items, and medicines, pointed out by Marisol Abduraman.
00:22Vice President Sara Duterte was not present at the hearing of the House Committee on Good Government and Public Accountability yesterday
00:28before the discussion on the 2023 confidential funds that she received.
00:33According to the Commission on Audit, they were asked three times by the Audit Observation Memorandum, or AOM,
00:40on the spending of the OVP.
00:42The funds used to pay for the information gathering are included there,
00:47which needs to be proven by the documents filed under a 2015 Circular.
00:52As far as the documents that they have submitted, so far we are not satisfied with the documents they have submitted.
01:03So we asked them to submit the documents that would satisfy the Joint Circular.
01:10There is also a portion of the confidential fund that was spent for food, medical items, and travel.
01:16By themselves, food and medical aid appears to not fall under the expenses allowed by the Joint Circular.
01:28So we are asking for explanation on those items.
01:35And then, it's the same with traveling expenses.
01:38In the P375 million allocation of confidential funds to the OVP from the 1st to the 3rd quarter of 2023,
01:46the AOM of COA received P164 million.
01:51This is the observation of a congressman.
01:53This is the same as the COA received from the OVP's confidential and intel funds in 2022.
01:58The fact that it seems to be repeated again because of the AOM, something that we have to look into.
02:04Sen. Duterte was the first to say, at the beginning of the hearing, that there is no misuse of funds.
02:09There is no misuse of funds.
02:14If there are audit findings, we shall gladly respond to them before the Commission on Audit.
02:22And if there are legitimate cases to be filed, then we shall gladly respond to them before the appropriate courts.
02:31For GMA Integrated News, Marisol Abdurrahman, Nakatuto 24 Horas.
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