About this transcript: This is a full AI-generated transcript of Financial analyst witness - Hindi 'supposed fraud' ang assessment dahil 'may testigo' — GMA News from GMA News, published October 12, 2026. The transcript contains 717 words with timestamps and was generated using Whisper AI.
"your exam that your asset based on your own assessment sir based on your own assessment there was an alleged or supposed fraud that were perpetrated by the respondent using the separate juridical entities sir that's why you pierced the veil of corporate fiction in your case that is your findings..."
[0:00] your exam that your asset based on your own assessment sir based on your own
[0:06] assessment there was an alleged or supposed fraud that were perpetrated by
[0:11] the respondent using the separate juridical entities sir that's why you
[0:17] pierced the veil of corporate fiction in your case that is your findings that is
[0:25] your opinion anyway you also mentioned the tax code sir in in explaining the
[0:37] piercing the veil you also referred to the tax code okay where a supposed under
[0:42] declaration in sales of more than 30% gives a prima facie presumption of fraud
[0:48] is that correct now but you are aware sir that the National Investigation
[0:55] Division in so far assist its audit of the books of accounts of and records of
[1:00] the vice president and mr. Manasseh Scorpio has not in any way came up with any
[1:05] findings of fraud but are you aware sir that the spouses Scorpio are not are are
[1:16] being audited by the NID National Investigation Division okay sir and no
[1:25] case for tax evasion or fraud has been filed against the spouses Scorpio by the
[1:30] BAR before the DOJ are you aware of that not yet not yet okay you're not aware not
[1:36] aware okay no criminal case for tax evasion or fraud was filed individually
[1:42] against the spouses Scorpio before any court in the Philadelphia okay finally you
[1:49] agree with me that this is it is only the court who can affirm or dismiss any finding of
[1:55] tax evasion or fraud and you are not aware of any judgment that was rendered against the
[2:02] spouses Scorpio for any crime involving tax evasion and fraud okay so sir your honor I think we this is a
[2:16] good time to have a lunch break it's 21 it is a good time we shall break for lunch
[2:26] you've been at it for two hours and one minute so you deserve a rest we shall break for lunch and we shall resume at 1pm
[2:35] child is in recess so dito na po attorney cayoso nag umpisa ang lunch break ng senate impeachment court may
[2:48] isang oras po sila para sa kanilang lunch break at mag umpisa sila muli mamayang alauna ng hapon at sa
[2:54] pagbabalik ang hinasaan po natin is the redirect pati na ang recross if any and yung mga interjections
[3:00] ng mga senator judge kay attorney cabera so ah para po sa inyo attorney kayo sa anong pinaka mahalaga
[3:07] o pinaka importanteng ah punto na nakuha from the ah witness ngayong umaga na ito una well both of them are
[3:16] competent at ah they they came prepared yung parehong cpa lawyer very detailed yung pagtatanong ng ah defense
[3:23] counsel but ah relax na relax itong si attorney alex mukhang alam niya ang kanyang sinasabi at ah
[3:30] ah kuminsan kinokorek pa niya yung ah yung ah ah defense counsel at kuminsan nauuna pa yung sagot niya
[3:37] dun sa tanong so it it shows a witness that is ready at ah confident dun sa kanyang mga sagot at ah very commendable din yung
[3:47] detalye na tinatanong ng ah defense counsel but yung there was early on an attempt to impune yung
[3:54] competence as expert witness nitong ah witness ito pero mukhang ah
[4:01] mga kapuso naka lunch break na nga po ang impeachment court at ang babalik po sila mamayang ah alauna ng hapon
[4:15] ah at ah tuloy tuloy lamang po no ang ating ah pagsubaybay at pagtutok dito sa pagpapatuloy na
[4:23] impeachment trial at kanina attorney napag-uusapan na nga natin no sabi nyo nga po eh very relaxed yung witness
[4:28] and that ah may may implication din no may impact yung ah kanyang ah demeanor sa kanyang pagtestigo
[4:35] yes i think ah importante na makita ng ah mga ah senator judges yan at ng taong bayan at ah we have to commend both of
[4:44] them naman no na highly technical to pinag-uusapan pero hindi naman sila nag-aaway all right and
[4:50] attorney ah mamaya po pag-uusapan naman po natin yung ah kung ano po yung mga nilalaman ng kanyang ah
[4:56] pagtestigo pati na yung ah credibility at ah yung mga questions on credibility and competence and the
[5:02] process by which this was conducted so pag-uusapan po natin yan mga kapuso wag po kayong bibitiw magbabalik
[5:08] agad ang the vice president on trial