Prosecutors Say Philippine Justice Had $28 Million in Accounts Prosecutors in the impeachment trial of Renato C. Corona, the chief justice of the Philippines, presented evidence on Monday that he had deposited $28.7 million into various bank accounts. According to financial documents presented by the prosecution, Mr. Corona maintains 82 dollar-denominated accounts in five banks in the Philippines. From April 2003 to December 2011, incoming transactions in the chief justice's accounts, including deposits and bank transfers, totaled $28,740,497.93, the documents showed. This was when Mr. Corona was earning less than $935 per month as a Supreme Court justice. "It is the smoking gun," said Ramon C. Casiple, executive director of the Institute for Political and Electoral Reform in Manila, regarding the revelation. For all practical purposes, the trial is over. Even if the chief justice testifies, it is unlikely he will be able to explain this. Mr. Corona was impeached on Dec. 12 by the Philippine House of Representatives. He is being tried by the Senate, which will decide if he is guilty of using his position to enrich himself and delivering biased decisions. If convicted, he faces removal from office. Mr. Corona made no comment on Monday, but he has previously denied any wrongdoing. Prosecutors rested their case on Feb. 28, but were unable to access Mr. Corona's dollar accounts because of strict Philippine secrecy laws regarding bank deposits in foreign currencies. The account information entered as evidence on Monday was allowed because of a loophole in the secrecy laws that grants the Anti-Money Laundering Council, a semiautonomous Philippine government agency, to gain access to bank records related to suspicious accounts. Conchita Carpio-Morales, the ombudsman of the Philippines, investigated the accounts in coordination with the council. In an odd twist, Mr. Corona's lawyers called Ms. Carpio-Morales to the stand on Monday to refute news media reports of the accounts. Her testimony accomplished the opposite. She confirmed the accounts and produced the records indicating the $28.7 million in deposits. "That was the biggest blunder of the impeachment trial," Mr. Casiple said. President Benigno S. Aquino III, who was elected in 2010, campaigned on the promise of making anticorruption efforts the centerpiece of his administration. His campaign for good governance has been cited as a crucial factor in the country's improving economy. The government took what it called a major step against corruption on Nov. 18, when former President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo was arrested on charges of tampering with the results of Congressional elections in 2007. In late December, she was also charged with corruption related to a $329 million contract with a Chinese company to install a national broadband network. Mr. Corona was Mrs. Arroyo's chief of staff before she appointed him to the Supreme Court in April 2002. Two days after Mr. Aquino won the presidential election in May 2010, Mrs. Arroyo elevated Mr. Corona to chief justice, a move that Mr. Aquino and his supporters contend was intended to derail efforts to bring Mrs. Arroyo and others in her administration to justice.