MUCH was revealed when financial forensic expert lawyer Alexander Cabrera testified before the Senate impeachment court. Among them were P600,000, which Vice President Sara Duterte and her husband, lawyer Manases “Mans” Carpio, splurged during two separate visits to Nike stores in Davao City and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and over P11.35 million remitted to the vice president’s family dentist, who also happens to be her husband’s business partner.
According to Cabrera, there were two registered transactions in a single day for the couple’s credit cards totaling more than P300,000 at a Nike outlet in SM Davao and another transaction at Nike Pavilion in Kuala Lumpur amounting to P256,882.50.
Apart from the P600,000 worth of Nike products, Cabrera said that Duterte and Carpio also used their credit card to pay for a hefty bill that they incurred in just one visit to a restaurant in Tokyo, Japan. They allegedly paid P205,000 for dinner at Ginza Inakaya in Tokyo.
And aside from those credit card transactions, Cabrera revealed that based on his examination of the couple’s financial documents, Duterte’s family dentist, a certain “Lourdes Libosada,” reportedly received over P11.35 million from the bank accounts of the vice president and her husband.
While questioning the financial documents of Duterte and Carpio, House prosecution panel member Rep. Chel Diokno asked the witness Cabrera about the identity of a certain “Lourdes Libosada,” who allegedly received millions from the couple.
Cale88 — the company owned by Carpio that produces banana chips — reportedly received millions from various foreign sources, including entities owned by the Chinese government and a company in Ukraine that has faced legal action for money laundering.
While the couple remitted cash to Libosada a number of times, Cabrera said the total value of the checks paid to the dentist reached P11.35 million, which he described as something that could hardly qualify as a “payment for dental fillings.”
Honestly, I find the P600,000 spent by the vice president and her husband for shopping as insignificant as the amount could even be considered as loose change for someone with Duterte’s stature. In fact, some people I know spend hundreds of thousands to a couple of millions just for a high-end bag. Even high-end shoes could fetch no lower than P50,000.
But at Nike, I think the most expensive basketball shoes there command no more than P15,000 a pair. While the defense clarified that the couple shopped at a Nike sporting apparel shop for their son’s basketball team, I’m still wondering what exactly did the couple buy at Nike and why the two shops — Nike Davao and Kuala Lumpur.
Again, this is not about the amount as I said; the P600,000 would just be a measly amount if the couple had shopped in high-end stores which I believe they could indulge in. The issue here is that Duterte declared she has no cash on hand or in bank in her statement of assets, liabilities and net worth. So, how was she able to pay for those purchases, the dinner and the remittance to her dentist?
Even if the purchases and dinner were paid for using credit cards, she and her husband would still have to pay for those, but how? Pay them with nonexistent cash? What about the payment to Libosada? Surely they would not issue her checks with no funds at all.
According to the prosecution, all those support the allegation against Duterte that she has held undeclared assets and unexplained wealth since assuming office as vice president in 2022.
And they were just the tip of the iceberg. In fact, the combined value of the couple’s alleged undeclared assets and unexplained wealth amounts to nearly P1 billion, according to Cabrera.
Cabrera, the financial forensic expert, presented a total figure of exactly P817,874,867, covering the period from 2022 to 2025. This sum encompasses cash, personal and real properties, as well as calculated income — both for the couple and from various corporations — that were allegedly left undeclared.
The largest amount was recorded in 2024, reaching P264,217,123. This was followed by P195,692,505 in 2025, P190,628,012 in 2022 and P167,337,227 in 2023 — bringing the total to P817,874,867.
In terms of cash alone, the total amount identified as undeclared over the four-year period reached P207,696,933. This amounted to P60,214,776 in 2022, P80,701,151 in 2023, P23,169,077 in 2024 and P43,611,929 in 2025.
Aside from cash, there was also P143,497,177 worth of other personal and real properties — net of deductions — that were allegedly undeclared. This includes P76,147,730 in 2022, P3,934,560 in 2023, P52,016,994 in 2024 and P11,397,893 in 2025.
Meanwhile, in Cabrera’s analysis of the combined income of the Duterte-Carpio couple, the total amount of allegedly undeclared income reached P111,852,349. This consisted of P50,474,511 in 2022, P12,198,235 in 2023, P28,030,203 in 2024 and P21,149,400 in 2025.
Significant amounts also surfaced in the analysis concerning Cale88, Metro City and GenCorp.
For Cale88 and Metro City, the total calculated amount of allegedly undeclared income reached P142,198,690. From P3,790,995 in 2022, it became P14,788,989 in 2023, surged to P86,944,369 in 2024 and stood at P36,674,337 in 2025.
As for GenCorp, the calculated amount of allegedly undeclared income over three years reached P212,629,718: P55,714,292 in 2023, P74,056,480 in 2024 and P82,858,946 in 2025. No amount is recorded for 2022 under this category.
The prosecution has decided to no longer pursue the three other articles of impeachment against the vice president — grave threats, confidential funds and bribery.
Lead prosecutor Batangas 2nd District Rep. Gerville “Jinky Bitrics” Luistro announced that would just simply focus on unexplained and undeclared wealth. For that alone, they have the vice president cornered. That alone is sufficient enough to warrant Duterte’s conviction and removal from office.
