They have presented the SALNs, the SEC, the banks, the insurance companies, the BIR.
Plenty of documents.
But when these are ranged against testimonial evidence, they go nowehere.
A witness is yet to speak with definitve voice and point the accusing finger that would dirty the hands of the vice president.
The way Clarissa Ocampo saw former president Estrada signed a fictitious Jose Velarde bank account, the way cold cash was handed to him by a Chavit Singson and how the resigned president owned substantial shares in a company that was involved in insider trading like his former finance secretary.
Instead, we are witnessimg how the law is being interpreted to lay the groundwork for conviction, used it to redo the math and buy time to achieve the scheme that would leave the respondent with nothing left but accept her fate.
Because beyond the respondent’s fate lies something even larger: the wealth of a nation being pillaged—with plenty or with nothing left to spare.
