OVP Assistant Chief of Staff Lemuel Ortonio gideklarang hostile witness samtang Leni Robredo walay confidential funds!
GI-APROBAHAN ni Presiding Officer Chiz Escudero nga hangyo sa prosekusyon nga konsiderahon nga hostile witness si Office of the Vice President kon OVP Assistant Chief of Staff Lemuel Ortonio!
Maghatag si Ortonio og testimonya kalabot sa Article 1 o kalabot sa misuse of confidential funds sa OVP.
Alayon sa pagpadayon sa impeachment trial ni Vice President Sara Duterte.
Sa direct examination sa prosekusyon kang Ortonio, gipangutana kung adunay confidential funds ang opisina sa paglingkod ni Vice President Duterte.
Kalabot kini sa letter request sa OVP sa confidential funds sa DBM niadtong 2022.
Gipangutana usab ni Private Prosecutor Atty. Mae Divinagracia si Ortonio kung makumpirmar ba niini nga , ang gisundan ni Sara nga si former Vice President Leni Robredo walay confidential funds.
Tubag ni Ortonio nga base sa records, walay record sa confidential funds.
“..You will confirm na pag-assume mo ng inyong position, around that time, walang confidential fund ang office of the Vice President. Tama ba? That’s correct. Which means, na yung successor ni Vice President Sara Duterte, na si Vice President Leni Robredo, walang confidential funds.
Your Honor, please. Yes, Attorney General. No basis, Your Honor, and conclusion of facts.
Kindly clarify, Leni is not the successor counsel. Sorry, predecessor, Your Honor. Exactly.
So, the kindly reform counsel. Mr. Antonio, do you confirm that Vice President Sara Duterte’s predecessor, former Vice President Leni Robredo, Your Honor, she did not have confidential funds? Your Honor, please. Yes, counsel.
Incompetent. He’s not a staff of Lenny Girobredo. If he knows.
If he knows. If you know, Mr. Antonio, you may answer. If you don’t, you may answer so as well.
Based on the records that we have, there’s no record of confidential funds. Ito ang dahilan kung bakit humiling ng confidential funds ang OVP sa DBM. Tama ba? Nung 2022.
Dahil wala kayong dinatnan ng confidential funds ng pag-upo mo kasama ng pag-upo ni Vice President Sara Duterte. Tama ba? Yes, ma’am. And this request for confidential funds, ipinaabot ito sa DBM sa pamamagitan ng isang sulat.
Tama ba? Letter request. Yes. Letter request..”
Silang Private Prosecutor Atty. Mae Divinagracia ug OVP Assistant Chief of Staff
Lemuel Ortonio.
SOURCE: NEWS5/GMA NEWS
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