Here’s what VP Sara Duterte said when asked about this issue.
Vice President Sara Duterte was asked about “Mary Grace Piattos” and this is her reaction regarding this matter.
Wanted: Mary Grace Piattos.
This name has been all over social media, in headlines and feeds, as this was the name reflected in the acknowledgment receipts for confidential funds of the offices of Vice President Sara Duterte: the Office of the Vice President (OVP) and, from 2022 to 2023, the Department of Education (DepEd).
However, the administration lawmakers believe the “person” isn’t real. Lawmakers in the House of Representatives raised the reward to those who can give details about this person to Php 1 million. The House Committee on Good Government and Accountability and the quad panel made this decision.
As much as we all know, there’s an ongoing probe regarding the alleged misuse of confidential funds in the offices of Duterte. Recently, the vice president was asked about “Mary Grace Piattos”.
The vice president refused to comment about it and according to her, she has not seen the acknowledgment receipts for confidential funds that were supposedly signed by the “Mary Grace Piattos”.
“I have no comment on that, ‘no, because I have not seen the acknowledgment receipt na kanilang sinasabi,” she said adding that documents with regards to the confidential expenses of her offices are submitted directly to the Commission on Audit (COA) by the special disbursing officer (SDO) and do not go through her.
She stressed that she could not make any comments as she didn’t know the process of submitting copies of the acknowledgment receipts to the COA and the House of Representatives. She also doesn’t know the people who handled those documents.
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According to COA, there were 787 acknowledgment receipts with unnamed signatories and 302 ARs with unreadable names of signatories submitted by the OVP and DepEd to justify the use of confidential funds in 2023.
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Misuse of public funds. Poor Filipinos no money to eat what a shame
They don’t know who is Mary Grace Piattos and Kokoy Villamin? If they are the recipient of the fund, then whoever the person who utilised or reimbursed the money to those two person knows who are they? Why not summoned that individual?