00:00The Senate Impeachment Court grants the prosecution's request for the subpoena of bank and tax records of Vice President Sara
00:07Duterte and her husband, Man Scarpio.
00:09The request for subpoena of records from the Anti-Money Laundering Council are also granted.
00:14The court also overrules the defense's argument that the husband's privacy should be respected.
00:19Presiding Officer Cheese Escudero says the marriage is governed by, quote, the absolute community of property regime.
00:25The request for subpoenas directed to the concerned banking institutions covering the accounts of respondent, attorney Manassas Carpio, separately or
00:33jointly, the partnership of Carpio lawyers, and the 19 listed corporate entities is granted.
00:38House prosecutors intend to use the financial records as evidence to prove Duterte's alleged unexplained wealth.
00:44The court also allows the subpoena for records from 2007 to 2021, rejecting the defense's argument that these cover years
00:51outside her public service and are irrelevant to the impeachment case.
00:55As Scudero clarifies, the bank records may only be used to establish a baseline and not to introduce new impeachable
01:01offenses.
01:02Defense spokesperson Michael Powa had argued the request for subpoenas is illegal, saying the prosecution was on a phishing expedition.
01:09Yun po ang ibig sabihin ng phishing expedition.
01:12When the party requesting information does not know what might be produced, dito po malaki ang pagkaiba ng sitwasyon.
01:21Maalala po ninyo, during the hearings before the Committee on Justice, the Executive Director of the Anti-Money Laundering Council
01:29testified and produced documents showing that from 2007 up to the present,
01:376.7 billion pesos ang dumaan po sa account ni Vice President Sara Duterte.
01:44While almost all of the prosecution's requests for subpoena were approved,
01:48Scudero denies the opening of foreign currency deposits without the written consent of the depositors.
01:53Meantime, Law Professor Maria Lulu Reyes says in a Rattler panel discussion, the court's ruling is
01:59legally correct, morally and ethically upright, and of course, politically timely.
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