BY ALEX ALAGON
VICE PRESIDENT Sara Duterte, in an interview with media on July 9 in The Hague, addressed persistent questions regarding impeachment allegations, particularly those concerning the use of “fictitious names as beneficiaries of funds.”
The vice president asserted that these matters would be “very well addressed during trial” and emphasized the confidential nature of intelligence operations.
Responding to a reporter’s query about the alleged fictitious names, VP Duterte stated, “I think it is wrong for everyone to pick up as truth or as a fact all the pronouncements of the members of the House of Representatives, particularly with the fictitious names, because that are names in intelligence operations.”
She further noted that aliases is a practice “often used in intelligence operations.”
When pressed if the use of aliases would be discussed during the trial, Duterte affirmed, “That can be discussed during the trial. I do not want to elaborate on intelligence operations.”
She revealed that her team has “an intelligence expert on our side, two actually, who will be our resource persons.”
“So, let us wait for the trial and as I said yesterday, if there is no trial, they will answer publicly. I just want to wait what will happen to the articles of impeachment,” she added.
