Duterte spent entire P4.5 billion allocation for confidential, intel funds in 2021

President Rodrigo Duterte talks to the people after holding a meeting with the Inter-Agency Task Force on the Emerging Infectious Diseases core members at the Malacañang Golf (Malago) Clubhouse in Malacañang Park, Manila on May 13, 2021.

Presidential Photo / Robinson Niñal Jr.

MANILA, Philippines — Former President Rodrigo Duterte spent the entire P4.5 billion allocation for confidential and intelligence funds for his office in his last full year as chief executive, according to the Commission on Audit.

The COA said in its annual financial report on national government agencies that the OP under Duterte spent P2.25 billion in confidential expenses and another P2.25 billion in intelligence expenses in 2021.

This is slightly lower compared to the confidential and intelligence expenses of Duterte's office in 2020, when it spent a total of P4.57 billion in those expenditures — more than what it was allotted in the national budget for that year.

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