00:00A show-cause order was issued by the House Quad Committee against Myla Roque, the wife of the former presidential spokesperson Harry Roque.
00:08Cassandra Leong, who was convicted of embezzlement, will also be given a show-cause order for not submitting a document.
00:17She was again contempted and transferred to a prison in Mandaluyong.
00:21Breaking news from Bea Pinlac.
00:26The motion is approved.
00:28The House Quad Committee ordered the transfer of Cassandra Leong to the Correctional Institute for Women in Mandaluyong
00:35the second time the committee cited her in contempt.
00:40May I move that Ms. Cassandra Leong, because we have cited her in contempt,
00:45should be detained at the Correctional Institute for Women in Mandaluyong for a period of 30 days. So moved, Mr. Chair.
00:56The educational background of Ms. Leong was left out in the hearing.
00:59Abang Lincoln Partylist Rep. Joseph Stephen Paduano, co-chair of the Quad Committee,
01:05asked her about the inconsistencies in the way she studied under the alternative learning system.
01:11You went to ALS, right? You went to ALS, right?
01:17Yes.
01:19What year did you go to ALS?
01:22Don't tell me you double-checked.
01:25Can you forget if you went to ALS or not? And what year?
01:302016.
01:342016?
01:35I'm not sure of the exact year.
01:39I think it was 2017.
01:41Okay. What school?
01:43I forgot, Mr. Chair. It was a public school.
01:48Is it possible that you don't know which school you enrolled in for the ALS?
01:52Maybe you didn't go to ALS. Maybe you studied in another country.
01:56You're lying, Ms. Cassandra Ong.
01:58Remember, you're now cited, previously you're cited in contempt, and I will once again cite you in contempt for lying.
02:08Before the committee approved this, a judge came to the court to assess Ong's health.
02:15Ong was just released from the hospital on September 10,
02:18after her blood sugar and blood pressure dropped while she was in the middle of being examined by the camera.
02:24I believe, for humanitarian reasons, Mr. Chair, considering her ailment,
02:31we should reconsider this motion to detain her at the women's correctional, Mr. Chair.
02:38Or maybe, for that matter, we should let the medical team check on her, whether she is fit.
02:46Because Mr. Chair, if something happens to Ms. Cassandra Ong, that would be the responsibility of this committee, Mr. Chair.
02:56According to Surigao Del Norte Rep. Ace Barbers,
02:59the medical team can still examine Ong while she's in the women's correctional.
03:04If she doesn't trust the medical director of the women's correctional,
03:09maybe we can ask that our own medical team from the House of Representatives go check on her periodically.
03:18Ong's camp has yet to announce that she will be transferred to the women's correctional.
03:23But first, Ong's lawyer, Ferdinand Topacio, said that Ong wanted to be transferred to the women's correctional
03:30instead of being embarrassed by the cameras.
03:33Ong will be transferred there after September 26, when the period of the first contempt order against her by the camera will end.
03:42The committee also issued a show-cause order for Myla Roque, the wife of the former presidential spokesperson Harry Roque.
03:49This is because of the lack of compliance with the invitation of the committee that is investigating the Pogos.
03:55Myla is explaining why the head of a large syndicate in China is in their formerly partly-owned house in Benguet.
04:04Since Myla Roque has been invited in the previous hearing,
04:10and the documents being requested or ordered to Mr. Harry Roque with regards to the medical certificate of Ms. Myla Roque
04:23that has been submitted in this committee Mr. Chairman,
04:26I so move that we issue a show-cause order for Ms. Myla Roque.
04:32We are trying to get a statement from the camp of Myla Roque,
04:36but Harry Roque previously denied that he had anything to do with the illegal Pogos.
04:41Bea Pinlac reporting for GMA Integrated News.
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