No, Philippine police did not seize a ledger showing a drug-accused family gave opposition politicians cash

The Facebook post claims the ledger was seized from the politically powerful Parohinog family during a deadly police anti-drug raid in the city of Ozamis.

Government records show there is no Ozamis city in the Philippines.

There is an Ozamiz city and its mayor Reynaldo Parojinog was killed, along with 11 other people, during a police anti-drug raid in 2017.

Here is AFP’s account of that deadly encounter.

A picture of Parojinog, seen on the right, is also included in the Facebook post:

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(Screenshot of Facebook post with picture of late Ozamiz city Mayor Reynaldo Parojinog)

The same picture of Parojinog appeared in Philippine press reports after he was killed.

According to the Facebook post, the seized ledger shows the family made 26 million pesos (about $486,000) in donations for the 2016 elections to opposition candidates Mar Roxas and Leni Robredo.

The post cites Ozamis Police Superintendent Ernesto Macabebe as the source of the information.

Authorities told AFP no such ledger was seized during the 2017 raid and that they have no officer named Macabebe.

The deadly raid was led by then-Ozamiz police chief Jovie Espenido, who told AFP: “I did not obtain that particular ledger”.

Philippine National Police spokesman Benigno Durana told AFP there was no record of the officer quoted in the post.

“As per the personnel accounting information system of the directorate for personnel and records management, there was no record of Police Superintendent Ernesto Macabebe in the PNP roster,” he said.

AFP also obtained the official list of the people who contributed to Robredo’s campaign funds in 2016 from the Commision on Elections (COMELEC).

The list does not include the Parojinogs.

The Parojinogs are also not listed as campaign contributors to Roxas’s presidential bid, as seen in this list from COMELEC. 

Roxas and Robredo are members of the opposition Liberal Party and are frequent critics of Duterte.

The post was shared by a Facebook group that supports the political clan of the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos. The Marcoses are close political allies of Duterte.

The post has been shared more than 1,000 times since it was posted in August 2018.