The impeachment trial of Philippine Vice President Sara Duterte — the first official in the country's history to be impeached twice by the House of Representatives — has reached a significant juncture, with a Philippine Statistics Authority official testifying on September 7 that the majority of named recipients of confidential funds from Duterte's offices cannot be verified as real people. Of 2,669 names listed as having received funds from the Office of the Vice President and the Department of Education, 1,685 had no birth, marriage, or death records; at least 37 were already deceased; and 25 were children, including three under the age of three. Duterte's defence team acknowledged for the first time that the signatories on the receipts had used aliases, though prosecutors objected that this admission came too late in proceedings, and the trial — covering four articles of impeachment including alleged misuse of confidential funds, unexplained wealth, bribery, and grave threats against President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. and his family — continues with 21 of 24 senator-judges presiding.