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ドゥテルテ氏の検察側、ドル口座の開示後も既存の訴追に十分な証拠があると主張
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今回
弁護側は銀行証人16人全員を取り下げた。検察側はこれ以上証拠は不要だとしているが、ドル口座の残高とBPIの書簡の最終的な扱いは未解決のままだ。
サラ・ドゥテルテ氏の弁護側証人リストには銀行関係者16人が含まれていた。16人全員が取り下げられた。11月11日に15人、続いて11月12日にフィリピン・アイランズ銀行(BPI)のシニア・バイスプレジデント、ポール・イスマエル氏が取り下げられ、検察側がフィリピン副大統領のドル口座に関する書類について同氏に質問する前に、証人尋問の機会がなくなった。37
しかし検察側は、ドル預金残高を新たに調べるとは約束していない。2026年11月14日、ケソン市で開かれた報道フォーラムで、検察側弁護人のベンジャミン・「ジェイ」・トロサ・ジュニア氏は、説明のつかない資産に関する訴追にはすでに十分な証拠があると述べた。この立場によって、最近話題に上った口座に何が含まれているかではなく、すでに提出された金融記録が何を立証できるかに注目が移る。35
それで満足しています。追加の証拠を提出する必要はないと考えています。
証人の取り下げが意味すること
取り下げられた証人候補は8行の銀行から選ばれていた。証言した後に証拠を撤回した16人というわけではない。弁護側の証人リストから外したことで予定されていた証言がなくなり、イスマエル氏の取り下げによって、その審理で同氏を反対尋問する機会もなくなった。37
弁護人のマイケル・ポア氏は、手続き上の率直な説明をした。イスマエル氏はポア氏が書いた照会書簡の真正性を確認する予定だったが、ポア氏は以前の手続きで自分が書いたことをすでに認めたと述べた。その書類は弁護側の証拠として標目が付されていた。「時間を考えれば、この証人は省くのがよいでしょう」と、Philstarの11月13日付報道によると、ポア氏は11月12日に法廷で述べた。37
検察側は、戦略的な撤退ではないかと疑った。下院検察官のジョエル・チュア氏は、質問が「パンドラの箱」を開ける可能性に例え、検察側報道官のジア・アロント・アディオン氏は、説明を要する金額がさらに明らかになるかもしれないと示唆した。しかしチュア氏自身、必要な留保を付け加えた。「まあ、推測することしかできません」。こうした疑念は、弁護側の動機を立証するものではない。1
すでに上院議員に示された計算
アディオン氏は銀行の証拠を「議論の余地のない事実」と呼んだ。これは当事者の主張であり、弾劾裁判所の結論ではない。トロサ氏がより限定的に述べたのは、検察側が提出した際、弁護側は口座の真正性に異議を唱えておらず、弁護側証人もまだ口座の存在を否定したり、記録に直接異議を唱えたりしていないということだった。1
こうした違いは重要だ。書類の出所を確かめること、口座が存在することを立証すること、そして資産の申告や説明が不十分だったと証明することは、それぞれ異なる課題である。記録が真正であっても、検察側の解釈が決定的な証拠になるとは限らない。真正性を証明する証人を取り下げても、 आरोपいが決着するわけではない。
トロサ氏は、特定の年にPHP20 millionおよびPHP30 millionを超えた年末残高に言及したが、口座や年は特定しなかった。こうした例を責任を持って合算したり、ドル口座に結びつけたりすることはできない。カブレラ氏が先に示した、より広い推計幅であるPHP817.87 millionからPHP1.5 billionも、同様に検察側の推計であり、ドル口座の新たな評価額でも裁判所の認定でもない。1
11月12日、公判43日目までに、弁護側は4日間の審理で証人6人を出廷させていた。検察側は、これらの証人はカブレラ氏の計算に直接反論していないと主張した。これは、弁護側の立証が未完了だった時点での検察側の評価を示すものであり、認めたことを意味せず、検察側の立証責任を軽減するものでもない。37
ドル口座をめぐる証拠審理は未完了
トロサ氏は11月14日、適用される銀行秘密法の下でアクセスが認められていなかったため、他の外貨口座については召喚状を出していないと述べた。これは召喚状の範囲に関する同氏の説明であり、個々の口座について、記録をさらに入手するあらゆる可能性が閉ざされたと確定した判断ではない。35
同氏はまた、カルピオ氏が47.5 percentを所有するとされる企業、Calle88について、すでに提出された外貨取引記録にも言及した。取引額は明らかにしなかった。企業の記録は、ドゥテルテ氏個人のドル口座残高を立証するものではなく、部分的な所有を理由に会社資金のすべてが株主個人の資産になるわけでもない。35
次回の審理は11月19日と20日に予定されている。その後、上院は2027年度国家予算の審議に集中するため裁判を休止し、次の公判日は12月1日となる見込みだ。これは審理再開の見込みであり、判決の日ではない。目先の焦点は、弁護側が既存の金融証拠にどう答えるか、そしてその証拠が検察側の主張を裏付けるのか、それとも単に検察側の自信を示すにとどまるのかである。35
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最初に報道
弁護側はBPIの法務責任者を証人から外した。検察官は、彼の文書の中にあるBPIの書簡がドル口座を確認していると述べている。
当社の放送 · 第2報現在地
ドゥテルテ氏の検察側、ドル口座の開示後も既存の訴追に十分な証拠があると主張
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放送時の内容
- Duterte's prosecutors see no need for more evidence after the disclosure of her dollar accounts.
- They're putting their existing financial case at the center of a trial that could remove the Philippine vice president. Conviction requires 16 Senate votes.
- On November 12, we reported that a BPI letter confirmed dollar accounts and the defense dropped a bank witness. Prosecutors now say they're satisfied with the evidence they've already presented.
- What will the defense answer when hearings resume, and can prosecutors still use the BPI material?
- Prosecution counsel Benjamin Tolosa Jr. says the team doesn't need additional evidence. His statement shifts attention back to the financial records already presented, even though nobody has disclosed the dollar balances or whether Duterte declared them.
- Tolosa made that statement on November 14. The defense's withdrawal of bank witnesses is also much broader than the single withdrawal described in the earlier broadcast.
- The Senate is hearing the case in Pasay City. Tolosa spoke at a news forum in Quezon City, two days after prosecutors questioned the defense's decision to drop the BPI official they wanted to cross-examine.
- The defense removed all 16 bank officials from its witness list. Fifteen were withdrawn on November 11. BPI senior vice president Paul Ysmael followed on November 12, ending the opportunity to question him at that session.
- Those prospective witnesses came from eight banks. They hadn't all testified and then taken back their evidence. The final withdrawal stopped prosecutors from cross-examining Ysmael about the BPI documents, including the information about dollar accounts.
- Defense counsel Michael Poa said Ysmael was no longer needed because Poa had already acknowledged writing the inquiry letter. Ysmael was supposed to authenticate it, confirming its origin. The letter had been marked as a defense exhibit.
- Poa's acknowledgment concerned his own letter. Whether Duterte properly disclosed her assets requires a separate judgment about the financial evidence. Tolosa also said other withdrawn bank representatives were meant to authenticate letters sent by Duterte's husband, Manases Carpio. That was a different set of letters from Poa's inquiry.
- Prosecution spokesperson Zia Alonto Adiong said bank managers had confirmed accounts belonging to Duterte, Carpio and companies where they held financial interests. He alleged that some balances were missing from Duterte's sworn asset declarations.
- Those declarations are called Statements of Assets, Liabilities and Net Worth, or SALNs. Disclosure rules include a public official's spouse's assets and financial interests. Adiong called the bank evidence an “indisputable fact.” The impeachment court hasn't ruled that the alleged wealth was undeclared or unexplained.
- Prosecutors cite forensic accounting expert Alexander Cabrera's earlier calculation of at least 817.87 million pesos in alleged unexplained wealth and undeclared assets. It concerns Duterte and Carpio from 2022 through 2025, refining the earlier description of four years.
- Cabrera's broader earlier estimate ranged from 817.87 million pesos to 1.5 billion pesos. Tolosa also cited year-end balances exceeding 20 million pesos and 30 million pesos in certain years. He didn't identify which accounts or years those examples concerned, so they can't be added together or assigned to the dollar accounts.
- Tolosa said the defense hadn't challenged the accounts' authenticity when prosecutors presented them. He also said no defense witness had denied their existence or directly disputed the records. Senators still have to decide whether the assets were adequately declared and explained.
- By November 12, trial day 43, the defense had presented six witnesses over four hearing days. Prosecutors said those witnesses hadn't directly rebutted Cabrera's calculation. The defense was still presenting its case. Withdrawing an authentication witness doesn't settle the unexplained-wealth charge.
- Subscribe to this channel to follow the defense's next hearings and what happens to the BPI evidence.
- Tolosa says bank-secrecy laws restricted access to other foreign-currency accounts, so those records weren't subpoenaed. He also cited foreign-currency transaction records already presented for Calle88, a company described as 47.5 percent owned by Carpio.
- He supplied no transaction amount for Calle88. Company transaction records don't tell senators Duterte's personal dollar-account balance, and Carpio's partial ownership doesn't turn all company funds into his personal assets. Tolosa's explanation of the subpoena limits also leaves the court to address any later attempt to obtain or use more records.
- House prosecutor Joel Chua acknowledged that prosecutors could only guess why the defense withdrew Ysmael. He likened potential questioning to opening a “Pandora's box.” Adiong suggested it could expose more amounts needing explanation. Those were their suspicions about defense strategy.
- Poa's stated reason was saving time because he'd already acknowledged his letter. Holding a foreign-currency account is lawful. The charge concerns whether Duterte's assets were properly declared and explained, and the dollar-account disclosure hasn't produced another quantified allegation.
- Presiding officer Senator Francis Escudero left prosecutors several later ways to raise the BPI material. On November 12, he declined an additional prosecution statement at that point because the prosecution had already rested its case.
- He allowed for a tender of excluded evidence, which preserves material the court hasn't accepted, or its discussion in written arguments and closing arguments. Prosecutors could also seek to present rebuttal evidence after the defense rests. Tolosa's latest statement leaves those possible uses open, but whether prosecutors will pursue them is still unclear.
- The BPI letter's final admission into evidence also remains unresolved. Marking a document as an exhibit is one stage of that process.
- An older BPI transaction involved a joint account held by Sara Duterte and her father, former President Rodrigo Duterte. Anti-Money Laundering Council executive director Ronel Buenaventura described that account at the Julia Vargas branch in Pasig City during October testimony.
- A covered transaction report recorded a 9.1 million peso withdrawal in April 2013. That predates Cabrera's 2022–2025 calculation and concerns a separate piece of evidence. The transaction report itself doesn't prove the money was illicit.
- The trial now concerns Article Two, the sole remaining charge of alleged unexplained wealth. Prosecutors dropped three of the original four articles on October 13. The immediate opportunity for the defense to answer the existing financial case comes at the next scheduled hearings.
- The next hearings are scheduled for November 19 and 20, five days after Tolosa's forum. The Senate then pauses the trial to focus on the 2027 national budget. The next trial day is expected on December 1.
- Prosecutors say their existing evidence is enough, while the defense still has its opportunity to answer it. The defense's completion date and the schedule for closing arguments or a vote haven't been announced. December 1 is the expected resumption of testimony.
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