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Jan 23, 2026

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.”

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Trillanes and Silent Majority group complaint before Ombudsman vs Sara Duterte cites Madriaga affidavit
Sep 26, 2023

VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Ombudsman nag-flip-flop sa paglalathala ng mga COA report

Sa isang pagdinig ng House appropriations committee noong Setyembre 11, hiniling ni Ombudsman Samuel Martires sa Kongreso na tanggalin ang utos sa Commission on Audit na ilathala ang Audit Observation Memorandum nito dahil lumilikha ito ng mga pahiwatig na nasuhulan ang kanyang opisina para ibasura ang kaso samantalang ang kakulangan sa audit ay hindi pagsumite lamang ng mga resibo.

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VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Ombudsman nag-flip-flop sa paglalathala ng mga COA report
Sep 26, 2023

FACT CHECK: Ombudsman flip-flops on publication of COA reports

After calling on Congress to remove from the General Appropriations Act a provision requiring the Commission on Audit to publish Audit Observation Memorandum, Ombudsman Samuel Martires changed his tune two days later, saying that what he actually meant was the removal of the requirement to publish COA’s Annual Audit Reports.

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FACT CHECK: Ombudsman flip-flops on publication of COA reports