Vice President Sara Duterte and 15 other officials of the Department of Education (DepEd) and Office of the Vice President (OVP) were charges before the office of the Ombudsman with plunder and graft over the alleged misuse of P612.5 million confidential funds.

The complaint were filed by former Finance undersecretary Cielo Magno, 2025 Ramon Magsaysay awardee Father Flavie Villanueva, and Father Robert Reyes.

Aside from plunder and graft, the complaints also alleged malversation and other related complaints against Duterte over her alleged misuse of confidential funds from 2022 to 2023.

They said that despite lengthy and repeated congressional inquiries, the Vice President has refused to explain where her offices spend such amounts of public funds, a stance which they said betrays the people’s trust.