THE controversial name “Mary Grace Piattos” surfaced in documents sought by the House Committee on Justice after it issued a subpoena to a state auditor of the Commission on Audit (COA), through Chairperson Gamaliel A. Cordoba, in connection with records tied to Vice President Sara Z. Duterte’s confidential funds.
In a “subpoena ad testificandum et duces tecum,” the panel directed State Auditor V Atty. Gloria A. Camora of COA’s Intelligence and Confidential Funds Audit Office, through Cordoba, to appear on April 14, 2026 hearing and submit original documents covering the use and liquidation of confidential funds.
“You are hereby directed to appear before the Committee on Justice on April 14, 2026, 10:00 A.M., at the 2nd Floor of the People Center, House of Representatives, and to submit the following documents at least five (5) working days prior to the said hearing,” the order read.
The subpoena, issued in connection with the verified impeachment complaints against Duterte, compels the submission of extensive original records from both the Office of the Vice President (OVP) and the Department of Education (DepEd) covering confidential fund transactions from 2022 to 2023.
Lawmakers are seeking “all the submissions by the OVP to COA in relation to the liquidation of confidential funds” across multiple quarters, including checks, disbursement vouchers, liquidation reports, certifications and accomplishment reports, as well as proof of submissions to Malacañang, the Senate and the House.
Among the documents cited were check and voucher transactions dated from December 2022 to July 2023, liquidation reports, and sworn certifications by accountable officers.
The committee also required records that could shed light on the integrity of disbursements, including “Documentary Evidence of Payments (hereinafter, DEPs)” bearing specific payee names.
These include:
- “DEPs with payee name ‘Milky Secuya’”
- “DEPs with payee name ‘Kokoy Villamin’”
- “DEPs with payee name ‘Mary Grace Piattos’”
- “DEPs with payee name ‘Irene Tan’”
The subpoena further covered documents “where the names of the payee are either unreadable, have incomplete names, are unsigned, have no names at all, or are undated,” as well as those “showing the physical impossibility of actual disbursement.”
Lawmakers also sought records “bearing dates within periods when within which OVP had no Confidential Funds to be disbursed.”
The committee underscored the role of the COA auditor in handling the records, stating:
“Atty. Camora is an auditor of the Commission on Audit’s Intelligence and Confidential Funds Audit Office (COA-ICFAO). COA-ICFAO has custody of all the documents in the Office of the Vice President (hereinafter, OVP) and the Department of Education’s disposition of their confidential funds (CF) for the years 2022 and 2023. Her testimony is needed to identify and authenticate the requested documents,” it said.
The subpoena was issued on March 31, 2026 under the authority of Committee on Justice Chairperson Gerville “Jinky Bitrics” R. Luistro of Batangas and Speaker Faustino “Bojie” G. Dy III, with attestation from Secretary General Atty. Cheloy E. Velicaria-Garafil.
