00:00The Senators have given the requested Executive Session to Dismissed Bamban Tarlac Mayor Alice Guo
00:05and said that she is ready to help the most guilty in the illegal Pogo operations.
00:10This is the news of Sandra Aguinaldo.
00:16In the hearing of the Senate regarding the illegal Pogo, Dismissed Bamban Mayor Alice Guo has something to say.
00:22Your Honor, I am not a mastermind.
00:24I can say that I am one of the victims.
00:27I think she has been under investigation for a long time.
00:30The committee already knows, especially chaired by our Madam Chairman,
00:35who is really at the back of everything.
00:38The Executive Session has been resumed.
00:41Are you willing to say who is the most guilty?
00:45Yes, Your Honor.
00:47Guo said that she is in charge of her own safety,
00:50that's why she can't just mention a name.
00:54The name of the person who helped her escape was also written on her name,
00:58which was later depicted by some Senators as one of the leaders of the illegal Pogo activities in the country.
01:05The Executive Session continued for a few minutes,
01:09because the Senators still have a session.
01:11But Senator JV Ejercito said that he has something to say in a short conversation.
01:17It will continue next week.
01:19Guo said that she will remember what happened.
01:22The relationship between Guo and Mayor Don Calugay, who was a former police officer,
01:29was repeated in the hearing.
01:31Calugay explained about her possessions,
01:35particularly the Happy Penguin Resort,
01:37where it is possible that Guo hid before she escaped.
01:41Senator JG Estrada pointed out that she had a lot of possessions when she was a mayor.
01:47Calugay objected to this.
01:49The mayor also denied that she has bank accounts with hundreds of millions of pesos in it.
01:54Calugay later signed a waiver to open her bank accounts.
02:00Senator Riza Ontiveros showed a picture of Calugay and former PNP chief Benjamin Acorda.
02:10We were shocked, Your Honor, because he was a former chief of police of SWAL.
02:17Brother of Alice, Wesley, is also in the picture.
02:20He also wants to see the highest position in PNP.
02:25Why does he want to see the chief of PNP?
02:28Nothing. Just like that, Your Honor. I just joined.
02:31I have no idea. I just saw the picture.
02:34In another picture, Acorda is with Tony Yang,
02:38a brother of former presidential economic advisor Michael Yang,
02:42who is now in jail.
02:44Acorda was not convicted, but when he received the statement,
02:48his answer was that he loves the country and PNP.
02:52What he did was what a Filipino should do as a police officer.
02:58Tony Yang said,
03:00We get to meet these officials especially when we need some help for the safety of our community.
03:08Have you known each other for a long time?
03:11I don't know.
03:12Former chief of PNP?
03:14Because in this picture, it's an older picture.
03:20He was a regional director.
03:22Yes, when he was still in Cagayan as the director, we know each other.
03:26Yang is a Chinese national,
03:28but he also has a Philippine birth certificate.
03:32With the help of a translator,
03:34Tony Yang said that in 1998, he was the first to go to the Philippines
03:38and his grandfather helped him start a business here.
03:41He doesn't know how to speak Tagalog or English.
03:45Where were you born?
03:46I was born in China, in Fujian.
03:51How do you spell that?
03:53Fujian, and that means in Fujian province.
03:55Place of birth, Misamis Oriental.
03:59And you just told us that you were born in Xinjiang, in Fujian province.
04:03So, a lie on the birth certificate,
04:06another proof that your birth certificate is irregular.
04:13My grandfather who helped me come up with this birth certificate,
04:17and I'm not sure maybe he did this for the convenience of the business here.
04:21His name is Yang Jianxin,
04:24in the Alien Certificate of Registration.
04:27But Antonio Maestrado Lim,
04:29his name is in the Driver's License, TIN, and GAD Permit.
04:32Yang said that he has businesses in rice, steel, and wheels.
04:36No, not now.
04:38Right now, I don't have any related business with Apoco.
04:43Right now, how about before?
04:47Before, I had a transaction with Apoco company
04:52for renting out a condo unit for them.
04:55The name that I had a transaction with is Tioshe.
04:58Senator Rizal Tiveros asked him,
05:01the Pogo Service Provider, Orun,
05:04where President Yang is listed.
05:09The reason why my name was in Orun
05:11is because during that time, I rented out the place to them.
05:14He was also assisted by the Philippine Sand Jet Steel.
05:18It's supposed to be a steel plant,
05:21but it also looks like there are Pogo-like facilities inside.
05:25There are dorm-style facilities,
05:28there is a restricted area that is prohibited for us Filipinos,
05:33and there is also a torturer, a gunman.
05:37How many foreign nationals are in this facility of Sand Jet?
05:42During their heyday, we were looking at around 2,000 Pogo workers.
05:48But now, ma'am, it's less than 300.
05:53Intel reports came to me,
05:56and of course, the documents that we saw,
05:59it all points to a Pogo operation.
06:02I asked him if he is close to former President Rodrigo Duterte.
06:08I am not very close with the former President Duterte,
06:12and I don't have contact with him.
06:14How did you meet the former president?
06:16The former President Duterte, he went to Cagayan,
06:20and we had a meeting with the Chinese business groups,
06:24and that's why we were able to meet him, and we had a photo with him.
06:28This is the first news.
06:29Sandra Aguinaldo for GMA Integrated News.
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