Defense rejects Kapunan's 'scam' remark on OVP confidential funds
The defense team of Vice President Sara Duterte on Aug. 4, 2026 pushes back against prosecution counsel Lorna Kapunan's description of the Office of the Vice President's confidential funds as a 'scam,' calling the remark a mischaracterization of the evidence presented before the Senate impeachment court. Defense spokesman Michael Wesley Poa said Kapunan's statement went beyond the testimony of former Commission on Audit Intelligence and Confidential Funds Audit Office auditor Roderick Wamil, who was discussing an Audit Observation Memorandum (AOM) involving the OVP's confidential funds. He maintained that whether the confidential funds amounted to a scam should be established through witness testimony and evidence, 'not by the lawyers.'
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