The Office of the President allowed VP Sara Duterte to travel.
The travel authority of VP Sara Duterte was approved, and amid her impeachment proceedings, she is set to travel overseas.
Based on the latest development regarding the impeachment proceedings of Vice President Sara Duterte, the Anti-Money Laundering Council (AMLC) told the House Committee on Justice that bank accounts linked to Sara Duterte and her husband, Manases Carpio, were repeatedly flagged for suspicious and covered transactions from 2006 to 2025, totaling PHP 6.77 billion.
AMLC Executive Director Ronel Buenaventura revealed that the AMLC identified 313 covered transactions and 17 suspicious transactions in Duterte’s accounts and 317 covered transactions and 16 suspicious transactions in her husband’s accounts.
Of the total, PHP 3.77 billion in flagged transactions were linked to the accounts of Duterte, while PHP 2.99 billion were tied to those of her husband.
Recently, amid the proceedings against her at the House Committee on Justice, Malacañang confirmed that the vice president has requested a travel authority for her upcoming overseas trips from April 23 to May 15. This has been granted, according to Executive Secretary Ralph Recto on Wednesday, April 22.
VP Sara will be traveling to the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and the Republic of Korea during that period. The Palace official did not disclose further details.
The said travel will be of no cost to the government.
From her 2022 election until stepping down as education secretary in 2024, Duterte has mostly traveled overseas for official duties, such as bilateral meetings and her role as council president of the Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Organization.
In 2025, her trips became largely personal, which included her efforts to collect support for the release of her father, Rodrigo Duterte, who is currently detained at the International Criminal Court in The Hague.
To recall, Malacañang has since criticized her frequent travels abroad, with Palace press officer Claire Castro describing her personal trips as “long vacation days.”
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