00:01Senators Erwin Tulfo and Vicente Tito Soto III yesterday, June 4, rejected the allegations raised during a Senate Blue Ribbon
00:08Committee hearing led by Senator Alan Peter Cayatanos-Block that they received suitcases of money.
00:15In a statement, Tulfo accused Bernard Gumban, one of the individuals presented as part of a group of the alleged
00:2118 former Marines, of making contradictory claims during the hearing, referring to the testimony as a big lie.
00:28He pointed alleged inconsistencies between Gumban's earlier affidavit and his testimony during the hearing, saying that Gumban had previously claimed
00:38to have delivered six medium-sized suitcases to him but later gave varying accounts involving two in six suitcases.
00:45On the other hand, Sen. Tito Soto III likewise dismissed the allegations, further stating that he had previously chose not
00:53to respond to the accusations because he was not a senator between 2022 and 2025, which is the period referenced
01:01in the allegations.
01:03He also disputed claims involving an alleged aide named Mark, noting that a person by that name who had worked
01:09for him already died in 2015.
01:12Soto urged others not to give credence to the accusations and described the hearing as a bogus investigation in aid
01:19of destabilization.
01:33Soto urged others under the hearing as a llama to a group of the
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