A tabular summary of Anti-Money Laundering Council (AMLC) reports presented on Monday at Vice President Sara Duterte’s impeachment trial showed 666 covered transaction reports (CTRs) and 55 suspicious transaction reports (STRs) involving Duterte and her husband, lawyer Manases Carpio, totaling P4.4 billion.
The document was presented before the court as AMLC Secretariat Executive Director Ronel Buenaventura took the witness stand on the 33rd day of Duterte’s impeachment trial.
Covered transactions refer to bank deposits of over P500,000 made within a single day, which banks automatically report to the AMLC.
Suspicious transactions, meanwhile, are those flagged by banks because of red flags or doubts about their legitimacy, including possible links to unlawful sources, regardless of the amount.
Of the 666 CTRs, 373 involved Duterte while 363 involved Carpio, with 70 reports appearing in both extracts and thus deducted from the combined total.
For the 55 STRs, 34 involved Duterte and 30 involved Carpio, with nine appearing in both extracts. The table also showed combined inflows of P1.63 billion and outflows of P1.31 billion, while P1.46 billion was classified as undetermined as to whether it was an inflow or outflow.
When Buenaventura first sat as a resource person at the clarificatory hearings of the House Committee on Justice on April 22, Buenaventura said banks flagged 33 suspicious transactions and 630 covered dealings worth P6.77 billion.
However, during the offer of testimony at the impeachment court this Monday, prosecution counsel Mae Divinagracia said a bank corrected its own error bringing the total to P4.4 billion in aggregate transactions.
Although she emphasized, ‘The AMLC reported P6.77 billion to the House in April 2026. Despite BPI’s correction regarding an alleged error in its own system, P4.4 billion in suspicious transactions still remains.’
Asked later by Divinagracia to explain further the difference, Buenaventura clarified that the initial coverage of the summary presented before the House was for years 2006 to 2025 and only covered reports from banks.
For the proceedings before the Senate, however, the summary covers 2007 to 2025 and includes all covered persons, not merely banks.
‘Then I would just like to note that there was a request for correction from a covered person regarding 13 CTRs. We conducted a validation in relation to that, so when we submitted the report to this Honorable Court on July 13, we had already corrected those entries,’ he explained.
This was later reflected in Table 1 of the summary presented on Monday which Buenaventura confirmed before the court he helped make.
‘Based also on this summary, how many CTRs that pertain to Vice President Sara Duterte are in AMLC’s records?’ Divinagracia asked.
‘Based only on this summary, it’s 373, your honor,’ Buenaventura answered.
Asked how many involved Carpio, Buenaventura said 363.
As for the STRs, he reiterated that the total was at 55 for the couple.
Meanwhile, asked again how much the corrected total was, Buenaventura said ‘So the total amount, the combined total as indicated here, Your Honor, is 4,400,089,940.70.’
‘This is all CTRs and STRs involving Vice President Sara Z. Duterte and Attorney Manases R. Carpio, 2007 to 2025, Your Honor,’ he added.