MANILA – Over 1,300 recipients of the Office of the Vice President’s (OVP) P500 million worth of confidential funds have no birth records, the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) said.
A total of 1,992 names were listed by the OVP as confidential funds recipients.
In a statement on Monday morning, the PSA said that out of these, 1,322 have no birth records.
The verification was done at the request of the House Committee on Good Government and Public Accountability after the PSA previously said that there were no records for Mary Grace Piattos and Kokoy Villamin.
The named verified by the PSA was based on the records submitted by the OVP to the Commission on Audit (COA) when they were asked for a liquidation report on the office’s confidential funds.
Aside from the 1,322 individuals with no birth records, 1,456 have no marriage records, while 1,593 have no death records.
On top of that, there are 679 individuals who most likely matched with one or more records in the PSA’s birth database 536 people were matched for marriage record, and 399 for death records.
In the Committee’s previous hearing, it was announced that 405 out of the 677 individuals listed in the acknowledgment receipts in the OVP and the Department of Education (DepEd) are non-existent.
The House Committee is investigating Vice President Sara Duterte-Carpio’s alleged confidential funds misuse in her office and the DepEd, during her tenure as Secretary, from 2022 to 2023./PN
