Almost 90% of OVP Confidential Fund Expenditures Disallowed by COA

Beyond Sara: Confidential funds run deep in local governments

CAGAYAN DE ORO, Philippines – Impeached Vice President Sara Duterte’s spending of hundreds of millions of pesos in confidential and intelligence funds has drawn increased public attention to her ongoing Senate impeachment trial. But beyond the accounting of those funds lies a bigger question: Why does the political system give elected officials access to large pools of public money that, by design, remain beyond ordinary public scrutiny? Duterte…

Almost 90% of OVP confidential fund expenditures disallowed by COA

MindaNews / 13 August 2026 — Expenditures amounting to ₱448.287 million or almost 90 percent of ₱500 million in confidential funds for the Office of the Vice President were disallowed by the Commission on Audit (COA), a state auditor told the Senate impeachment court. Xylene Mae del Campo, state auditor of the COA’s Intelligence and Confidential Funds Audit Office (ICFAO), at the Senate during the impeachment trial. Photo by the Senate Social Me…

For solon, spending confidential funds to secure VP Duterte in stronghold Davao makes no sense

What's the rationale for spending millions in confidential funds to secure Vice President Sara Duterte in Davao City--her family's political stronghold?House...

Sara Duterte impeachment trial Day 15: Confidential ops not part of VP Sara mandate

State auditor Xylene del Campo on Wednesday maintained that the Office of the Vice President"s (OVP) 2023 confidential fund spending was irregular, saying supplier details were not confidential and that receipts or invoices should have been submitted to prove purchases made using the funds.