Impeach court gets records on Duterte-Carpio Davao City properties

MANILA, Philippines — The Senate impeachment court received on Wednesday documents on Vice President Sara Duterte and her husband Atty. Manases Carpio’s properties in Davao City.

This comes as defense witness, Davao City Assessor Engr. Jaime Adelin submitted to the court the records asked of him.

“We would like to inform the senator-Judges, particularly Senator-judge [Bam] Aquino and [Risa] Hontiveros, that the court is in receipt via email of copies of… certification of records regarding properties declared for tax purposes under the names of Vice President Sara Duterte and Manases Carpio,” presiding officer Francis “Chiz” Escudero announced.

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Aquino and Hontiveros sought the documents from Adalin after the engineer stated that the Brgy. Matina Crossing property declared by Duterte in her statement of assets, liabilities and net worth (SALN) is the same property with a tax declaration and a transfer of certificate title (TCT) 

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According to Adalin, the two are the same on the basis of the assessed value and the market value of the properties.

However, this was contested by the prosecution since unlike the TCT and the tax declaration, the SALN does not provide the coordinates of the property, but just the general location.

The prosecution also highlighted that the property listed in the SALN had a P10-million cost of acquisition, but was supposedly only sold at P6 million.

Adalin also submitted to the court a documentation relating to his travel to China, which was probed into by senator-judges. 

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He previously said he could no longer recall the details of his trip to China, along with other Davao City officials.

According to the court, Adalin turned over the following documents:

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– Travel authorities issued by the interior and local government secretary and the Davao City administrator

– Copy of Engineer Adelin’s Chinese visa stamped in his passport