Philippine Vice President Philippine Vice President Sara Duterte, facing impeachment charges that she failed to truthfully disclose her assets, dropped plans to tap financial executives as witnesses about millions of pesos in bank transactions.
The withdrawal of some witnesses denies the prosecution a chance to cross-examine the bank officials and dig deeper into Duterte’s transactions. It also raises questions about whether Duterte’s defense is shifting from disputing the existence of the bank transactions toward challenging prosecutors’ interpretation of what those transactions prove.
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