"Jay Kamote," isa umano sa mga pangalan na nasa OVP confi funds

- House Deputy Majority Leader Francisco Paolo Ortega V Ortega reveals new questionable names in OVP funds, including "Jay Kamote" and "Miggy Mango"

- There were also new findings add to allegations of fake receipts and missing signatory details, GMA News reported

- Suspicious names like names like "Mary Grace Piattos" and "Xiaome Ocho" raise fraud concerns considering that these names could not be found in the PSA

- Senate President Chiz Escudero has confirmed that impeachment trial will begin in July amid Duterte's case in the ICC

House Deputy Majority Leader Francisco Paolo Ortega V has revealed several other "strange" names that are said to have received confidential funds from Sara Duterte's Office of Vice President, which includes a "Jay Kamote" and a "Miggy Mango," GMA News reported.

In a statement on Sunday, the congressman from La Union said that the list also includes the names Dodong Alcala, Dodong Bina, Dodong Bunal, Dodong Darong, and Dodong S. Barok.

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Ortega said that this could be used to strengthen the impeachment case against Duterte.

Among the complaints against Duterte in the impeachment case filed by the House of Representatives are alleged receipts or documents with wrong dates, signatures without the names of the signatories, and illegible names of the signatories, to justify the use of the said controversial funds in 2022 and 2023, by the OVP and the Department of Education (DepEd) when he was its secretary.

The name “Mary Grace Piattos,” which appeared without a record from the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA), had previously surfaced.

Recently, another name also surfaced that was also an alleged beneficiary of the said fund, named “Xiaome Ocho,” which is the name of a cellphone brand.

“Hindi lang ito kapabayaan—ito ay isang maingat na planong paglustay sa pondo ng bayan. Peke ang mga pangalan, peke ang liquidation, at peke ang pananagutan," Ortega said.

After the House sent the articles of impeachment to the Senate, Duterte’s camp filed a petition with the Supreme Court to question the validity of the complaint filed against him.

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Duterte has previously said that he did not commit any irregularities with the said fund and insisted that politics is behind the attacks against him.

Senate President Francis “Chiz” Escudero earlier announced that the Senate will begin its hearings on the charges against Duterte as an impeachment court in July.

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Meanwhile, GMA News took to Instagram to warn about a fake video that is being spread on social media. According to GMA News, the fake "prayer rally video" for PRRD in Cebu was edited, and that the original was actually their video taken during the Sinulog. The network then shared a side by side comparison of the fake video vis-a-vis the real video that they shot from Sinulog Festival. GMA also explained that the video was during a procession of the devotees on January 17, 2025.

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In other news, illicit drug trade disguised as a parcel distribution center was recently uncovered by authorities. In a surveillance video shared on 24 Oras Weekend, one can see an individual receiving a parcel from a rider in front of an apartment building. Subsequently, another person seen waiting for another set of package in the same place. Authorities later swooped down on the said parcel distribution center and seized pastic bag and sachets of suspected illegal substance with an estimated street value of around 6.8 million pesos.

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