Former Commission on Audit (COA) Intelligence and Confidential Funds Audit Office auditor Roderick Wamil testifies before the Senate impeachment court that the Office of the Vice President (OVP) does not comply with requirements for using and liquidating confidential and intelligence funds. In testimony spanning the OVP’s reported accomplishments, Wamil says the OVP’s accomplishment report covering Feb. 6 to March 29, 2023 includes expenditures that are not allowed under the applicable Joint Circular. He also adds that the report does not submit the documents needed to show that information-gathering or surveillance activities by informants were successfully carried out, as the Joint Circular requires.
Wamil further tells the court that the OVP’s third-quarter 2023 accomplishment report lacks required supporting documents for proving the success of intelligence operations. He points to payments totaling about P35 million for rewards to informants, saying these are not supported by records demonstrating that the activities for which rewards were paid were successfully performed.
In related testimony, Wamil says the OVP also fails to submit supporting documents for confidential expenses in 2023, based on audit observations reflected in an Audit Observation Memorandum covering the first and second quarters of 2023.
