House prosecutor Terry L. Ridon says the House prosecution team in Vice President Sara Z. Duterte’s impeachment trial is preparing to submit a pretrial brief that includes new evidence related to the vice president’s alleged undeclared wealth. Ridon, speaking at an event launching “Bantay Impeachment” in Quezon City, states that some evidence concerns properties that he alleges are owned by Duterte and her husband, lawyer Manases Carpio, but were not declared in Duterte’s Statements of Assets, Liabilities and Net Worth (SALNs) spanning 2007 to 2024.
Ridon links the new material to the prosecution’s broader effort to show alleged inconsistencies in Duterte’s disclosures, noting that the properties evidence carries significance comparable to earlier impeachment discussions involving bank accounts that were raised during House committee hearings on justice. The disclosures are made as the House prosecution panel prepares its pretrial brief for the Senate impeachment court. The reports focus on Ridon’s claims about the existence of documents and their alleged relevance to SALN omissions.
