MANILA, Philippines — The prosecution is set to use Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) records to challenge the existence of supposed confidential-fund recipients identified as “Mary Grace Piattos” and “Milky Secuya,” whose names appear in acknowledgment receipts used to account for millions of government funds, House prosecutor Terry Ridon said Friday.
Ridon said the PSA witness would testify on supposed recipients whose names could not be found in civil registry records, which the prosecution expects to show that some of the named recipients were “fake” or fictitious.
“So we can really show that these people are fake, fictitious,” Ridon said during an online press briefing.
The prosecution will also present National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) forensic document examiners to scrutinize the handwriting and signatures on the acknowledgment receipts.
Ridon said the NBI had examined 36 original acknowledgment receipts and found others bearing different names of recipients that were written or signed by the same persons.
He said the acknowledgment receipts were crucial because they documented the supposed end of the trail of the confidential funds.
“And of course, that is where we can see that the acknowledgment receipts are where the presentation of the flow of these confidential funds ends,” Ridon said.
