00:01Ma'am, please raise your right hand.
00:04You, Karen S. Batu, do swear that the evidence you shall give in the case now pending between
00:11the Philippines and Vice President Sarah Zimmerman Duterte shall be the truth, the whole
00:16truth, and nothing but the truth.
00:17So help you God.
00:20Your Honor, we are presenting Attorney Batu for the following purposes.
00:24Yes, number one, and for ease of reference, your Honor, the same are being flashed on screen.
00:31So number one, to prove that the witness is the officer in charge of the records division
00:38of the Office of the Ombudsman and has been serving in such capacity since December 2025.
00:44I'll zero in on the 2007 SAL-N where those businesses that you've mentioned were already existing.
00:52Ang tanong ko po ito, Madam Witness, meron po bang nakadeklarang, or sorry, what is
00:59the declared acquisition cost or puhunan ng mga negosyong ito, kung meron man?
01:08Wala pong deneclare si DP, Sarah.
01:10Okay, salamat po.
01:11I'm sorry.
01:12So meron pong negosyo, pero walang deklaradong puhunan.
01:16Tama po ba?
01:16Yun po yung nasa SAL-N.
01:18Alright.
01:18Sige po.
01:22Based on the 2024 and 2025 SAL-N, wala pong nakadeklare na shares of stocks.
01:29Sige po.
01:29At magkano po yung puhunan, kung meron man, na dineklara ng ating Vice President, para
01:35doon sa various business interests na meron siya?
01:38Before that, Your Honor, with the indulgence of this court.
01:41Yes, Attorney Justin.
01:43We will have to object to these lines of questioning, particularly on the word puhunan, Your Honor,
01:48as the Council has been misleading, as he has been making it seem that puhunan is equivalent
01:54to acquisition cost, Your Honor.
01:56We'd just like to clarify for the record that puhunan is capital, Your Honor, and not capital
02:01investment and not acquisition cost, Your Honor.
02:05Julie noted, and the Chair agrees with the distinction.
02:12Ang nakadeklare po na net worth po ng ating Vice President for the SAL-N 2007, ito po ay declared
02:22as P7,250,497.
02:26How about in 2008, and I promise to be very quick after this.
02:31How about in 2008, what is the declared net worth of the Vice President in 2008 after one
02:38year in public office?
02:40For 2008, the declared net worth is P18,493,616.65.
02:51Okay, so tama po, Madam Witness, no?
02:53After one year lang sa public office, sobra doble na yung tinaas ng kanyang network based
02:59on the records only.
03:00Again, Your Honor, we move to strike those statements, Your Honor.
03:02Objection to those statements.
03:04Council, you already know, kindly move on, so stricken.
03:21You
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