Alleged former bagman of VP Sara Duterte makes revelations.
VP SARA DUTERTE – The alleged former bagman of the second-in-command submitted an affidavit with these details.
A man claiming to be a former “bagman” of Vice President Sara Duterte said in an affidavit obtained by Politiko that her 2021–2022 national campaign was funded by POGOs and drug dealers.
As reflected in the sworn statement, Ramil Lagunoy Madriaga stated that in 2020, he was instructed by Duterte, then Davao City Mayor, to form a group called Inday Sara Duterte Is My President (ISIP) with his former classmates at San Sebastian College of Law.
This group has accordingly registered Securities and Exchange Commission as ISIP Pilipinas. This has become a national support network for Duterte’s presidential bid. The former bagman claimed that he stood as the group’s national convenor. He said the group first got its funding from Mayor Sara and other allied support groups.
When she won as Vice President in 2022, Madriaga was assigned to form the Vice Presidential Security and Protection Group (VPSPG). This handled security and intelligence operations for the Vice President.
He was the one who recommended Col. Dennis Nolasco to head the unit. Later on, Nolasco allegedly tapped Col. Raymund Dante Lachica to lead the VPSPG. From July 2022 to April 2023, Madriaga worked under Nolasco and Lachica.
In the affidavit, he claimed that one of his tasks was to deliver huge sums of money to different locations under the alleged directives of VP Sara.
During one incident, he delivered a duffel bag full of cash to a comedy bar in the Timog area. The establishment was owned and frequented by SSC-Law alumni. There, he saw OVP spokesperson Reynold Munsayac, who then motioned him to bring the bag upstairs and leave it inside an office, after which he immediately left.
The other instances of doing this similar task, based on his claims as per containing cash to the Ombudsman’s parking compound, were:
- Delivering a vehicle containing cash to the Ombudsman’s parking compound
- Driving a white Toyota Vios that has PHP 80 million in cash inside, which he left at the parking lot of SM Megamall
- In a 2020 operation, he picked up a Toyota Super Grandia from Jollibee Kamuning and brought it to a Daang Hari car wash in Muntinlupa. This was then turned over to two men waiting in a black Honda Civic in nearby Katarungan Village.
- In 2022, over a phone call with the VP herself, he was instructed to get a Honda Civic loaded with cash near a KISLAP warehouse and deliver it to a residence in Jordan Plains, Novaliches, Quezon City. It was brought to a house owned by the Santiago family. Days later, he delivered another white Honda Civic to the same address, with cash inside.
“I was able to identify several of these individuals during my frequent pickups of cash-filled bags at locations such as The Gate in Pampanga, Vertis North Mall and Seda Hotel in Quezon City, and the Grand Hyatt in BGC,” he stated.
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