MANILA, Philippines – The House prosecution panel over the weekend said Vice President Sara Z. Duterte’s lawyers failed to challenge the authenticity of key financial records during the impeachment trial, focusing instead on bank secrecy and confidentiality objections that the Senate impeachment court has largely rejected. House prosecution legal spokesperson and private prosecutor Benjamin Tolosa Jr. said the defense did not directly dispute the authenticity of documents involving Duterte’s assets, income and bank transactions during cross-examination of prosecution witnesses. “More importantly, nakita naman natin during the cross, they did not try to attack the authenticity of these documents,” Tolosa said during […]...

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