Billions of pesos flowed into Vice President Duterte’s bank accounts
AMLC Executive Director Ronel Buenaventura said his agency was flagged by private banks on the Vice President’s cash and check deposits and withdrawals more than 400 times since 2007.
Vice President Sara Duterte attending a hearing last September 18, 2024. Photo from House Press and Public Affairs Bureau.
Manuel Mogato | April 23, 2026
MANILA — Nearly 7 billion pesos went in and out in the bank accounts of Vice President Sara Duterte and her husband, lawyer Manases “Mans” Carpio from 2007 to 2025, the Anti-Money Laundering Council (AMLC) told a congressional panel looking into corruption cases.
AMLC Executive Director Ronel Buenaventura said his agency was flagged by private banks on the Vice President’s cash and check deposits and withdrawals more than 400 times since 2007.
Buenaventura said AMLC had investigated these “covered” and “suspicious” transactions under the anti-money laundering law.
“Vice President Sara Duterte’s accounts generated a total of 371 large transactions and 30 suspicious transactions from Oct. 13, 2005 to Jan. 28, 2026, with transaction amounts reaching as high as P55.158 million,” Buenaventura told the House Justice Committee at the resumption of its impeachment hearing.
“The transaction composition is largely driven by credit memos worth P1.41 billion, debit memos worth P1.03 billion, and fund transfers of P521.86 million, followed by time deposit pre-terminations worth P218.74 million and miscellaneous transactions worth P209.29 million,” the AMLC report said.
These bank transactions was inconsistent with what the Vice President reported in her annual statements of assets, liabilities, and net worths from 2007 to 2024.
From 2007 to 2024, Duterte’s net worth grew from 7 million pesos to 88 million pesos. She also failed to disclose money deposited in her bank accounts from 2019 to 2024.
Congresswoman Leila de Lima said the discrepancies were “smoking gun” in the impeachment complaints against the Vice President. (Also read: Vice President runs to the Supreme Court to stop impeachment)
Moreover, former senator Antonio Trillanes IV told the justice panel that he was alerted by an informant who used to be connected with the Vice President, revealing that the Duterte family got more than 180 million pesos from a known drug lord, Sammy Uy, between 2011 and 2013.
The AMLC confirmed that 18 bank transaction records in its possession matched the check deposits credited to Duterte’s accounts.
“We confirm that for all the dates and amounts mentioned, there are similar transactions existing in the AMLC report,” Buenaventura said.
Batangas Congresswoman Gerville Luistro, head of the justice committee noted the AMLC’s observation on the revelations made by Trillanes.
“So for the record, 18 out of 18 transactions randomly selected from the annexes of the Sinumpaang Salaysay of Hon. Trillanes were confirmed by the AMLC, at least to the extent that similar transactions appear in their report,” Luistro said.
Based on the AMLC report, more than 3.7 billion pesos 2.998 billion pesos, flowed into the bank accounts of Vice President Duterte and her husband, Manases Carpio, respectively.
The report also identified 791 million pesos in transactions as having undetermined inflows and outflows. (Also read: “I delivered cash for the Vice President”)
The bank transactions involving other parties’ accounts—where Vice President Sara was identified as beneficiary and/or counterparty—comprised 15 large transactions and one suspicious transaction from June 20, 2006 to April 2, 2025, with amounts reaching up to 7.44 million pesos.
Covered transactions are deposits, withdrawals and fund transfers amounting to more than 500,000 pesos in a single transactions while suspicious transactions were believed to have come from illegal sources regardless of the amount but a pattern of inflows and outflows were noticed.
The Vice President has not responded to the allegations in her bank transactions, but she will travel to several countries for almost a month from April to May.