00:00Former OVP Special Disbursing Officer Gina Acosta admits confidential expenses supposedly for food, medicines, and supplies in 2022 did not
00:08have official receipts.
00:10This involves 125 million pesos in confidential funds handled that year by the Office of the Vice President under Sara
00:16Duterte.
00:17Acosta says then OVP Security Head Colonel Raymond Lachica only gave her acknowledgement receipts.
00:23She says Lachica was the one who made payments using the funds.
00:30Special, kung saan binili biogesic paracetamol.
00:37As I verify po ng mga acknowledgement receipts na binigay sa akin ni SO Officer Colonel Lachica,
00:49na itanong ko po siya kasi may napansin po ako na ang iba walang date, walang name, may perma.
01:02Ang sagot naman sa akin ni SO Officer,
01:05Ma'am Gina, kung ano man ang binigay ko sa'yo ng mga dokumento, yun na yun.
01:14Kasi ang mga transaction or ang operation doon is very sensitive information.
01:24Sensitive information po Ma'am Gina.
01:27At saka confidential po ito.
01:30Proceedings on Monday, August 24, showed more acknowledgement receipts bearing unusual names,
01:35such as Antonio Pagong, Shane Ngit Ngit, and Timon Andrew Pusa.
01:39Acosta tells the impeachment court she did not witness the actual payments,
01:43and she trusted Lachica, whose job it was to carry them out.
01:46In its direct examination of Acosta,
01:48the prosecution aimed to establish that the OVP violated rules when she,
01:52as a disbursing officer, delegated the actual dispensation of the funds to someone else.
01:59pape to be in agreement.
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