SENATOR Rodante Marcoleta is facing a perjury complaint before the Office of the Ombudsman after admitting in a televised interview that he did not fully disclose the donors who funded his successful 2025 Senate campaign.

Election watchdog Kontra Daya, led by Danilo Arao, along with Advocates of Public Interest Law Alexander Lacson and Dino de Leon, filed the complaint on Friday, December 5. They cited Marcoleta’s November 7 interview as the basis of their allegations.

“By his own admission, respondent publicly acknowledged receiving campaign contributions for the May 12, 2025 senatorial elections, but deliberately declared zero contributions in his sworn SOCE (Statement of Contributions and Expenditures),” the complaint read.

“These acts constitute Perjury under Article 183 of the Revised Penal Code, which penalizes any person who, having taken an oath before a competent officer, willfully and deliberately asserts a falsehood upon a material matter,” it added.

The complainants said Marcoleta knowingly concealed his contributors.

“This admission shows that he consciously chose to declare zero contributions precisely to avoid disclosing his donors, despite knowing that the law required him to do so,” the complaint stated.

They emphasized that his statements signal intentional evasion.

“His use of ‘mapipilitan’ reflects not coercion, but a recognition of a legal duty he intentionally decided to evade. Respondent’s explanation that his donors asked him to treat their contributions as ‘utang na loob’ further confirms that the concealment was deliberate,” it added.