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Confirmation hearings to proceed even without Duterte in court, ICC experts say

Update Feb. 20, 2026: ICC Pre-Trial Chamber 1 allows Duterte to skip confirmation hearings next week.“The Chamber, while acknowledging the objections of the Prosecution and the CLRV, considers that, in the present circumstances of the case, it is appropriate to proceed with the hearing on the confirmation of charges in the absence of Mr Duterte.”

Confirmation hearings to proceed even without Duterte in court, ICC experts say

Trillanes and Silent Majority group complaint before Ombudsman vs Sara Duterte cites Madriaga affidavit

Madriaga, in a notarized affidavit dated Nov. 29, 2025 claimed that Col. Raymund Dante Lachica, security chief at the OVP, made him deliver large sums of money taken from Duterte’s confidential funds at the OVP and the DepEd to several persons “thus confirming how Respondent Duterte and her co-respondents converted the subject confidential funds to their own personal use, contrary to the actual purposes for which the same was earmarked and/or purportedly disbursed.”

Trillanes and Silent Majority group complaint before Ombudsman vs Sara Duterte cites Madriaga affidavit