Sen. Gatchalian, may naging babala kay dating presidential spokesperson Harry Roque dahil sa hindi umano paggalang sa komite ng Senado;
Sinasabing accountant ni Alice Guo, pinalaya na ng Senado
Sinasabing accountant ni Alice Guo, pinalaya na ng Senado
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00:00The Senate Committee on Women's yesterday meeting was tense, not to mention Pogo sa Bansa.
00:06Senator Risa Honteveros and former presidential spokesperson Harry Roque are the ones answering.
00:12Let us be fair, because you have been insinuating I am a lawyer for Lakislao.
00:16Excuse me, the chair has not been insinuating anything.
00:21The chair and the members of the committee have been asking questions
00:25based on the sworn testimonies of PAGCOR Chair Tengco, Attorney Fernandez of PAGCOR, and other resource persons.
00:36Do you maintain that you are not a lawyer for Lakislao 99 or any Pogo for that matter?
00:42I maintain as an officer of the courts and under oath before the Senate of the Republic of the Philippines
00:50that I have never acted as a legal counsel for Lakislao 99 or for any other Pogo.
00:56All right. But it is true that you had a meeting with PAGCOR regarding Pogo sa Porak.
01:04That is true. I had a meeting. But as I said, I am known as a whirlwind corporate secretary.
01:13Because Roque's defeat to Honteveros is unparalleled, Senator Sherwin Gatchalian is worried.
01:19Madam, you are angry because you are saying that I am giving you words.
01:27I am not angry. I am just telling you not to do that.
01:30But now, you said, you again insinuated that I had anything to do with the document.
01:36That is what I am saying.
01:38Attorney, please stop using that offensive verb, insinuating.
01:43I am a very plain speaker.
01:45Okay, I'm sorry.
01:46This investigation is already four years. Almost no one is insinuating.
01:50The Senate says that in proving facts, the rules of court apply in the supplitory character.
01:56You don't need to tell the committee what the rules of the Senate.
01:58Excuse me. Excuse me. No, no, no, no.
02:00Ma'am, excuse me.
02:01No, no, no, no. Excuse me. Excuse me, Attorney Roque.
02:04I'm sorry, Madam.
02:05Yes, it's all right.
02:06I am a resource person invited.
02:07Yes, you are.
02:08Wait, wait, wait. Let me finish.
02:09I was asked to answer.
02:10Attorney Roque, please be reminded to respect the chairperson.
02:13I'm very respectful, Madam Chair.
02:15How can you be respectful when you are talking to him?
02:18I apologize, Senator Gatchalian.
02:21One more, and I will cite you in contempt.
02:24Since the hearing, Roque has a witness.
02:27After the hearing, the authorities conducted an operation in a house in a subdivision in Benguet.
02:34The owner of that house is Secretary Roque.
02:37Secretary Roque, do you own that house?
02:41The house that you are talking about in Tuba, Benguet is registered in a corporation.
02:45I inherited it when I left the government.
02:48And I do have an interest in the corporation that owns it.
02:52But I don't have possession of that house.
02:55That's why when they said that my house was looted and that there are wanted bosses there,
03:02I concluded that there is someone forcing me to inherit it.
03:06Attorney Roque, let's not jump to other issues.
03:09Let's focus on the question of SP Prote.
03:12Meanwhile, Gamo was released by the Senate after speaking at the hearing.
03:17It should be noted that Gamo Umano has a record of accounting for suspended Mayor Alice Guo.
03:23But during the hearing, she was confronted by a suspended mayor.
03:28Ma'am, you said earlier that since 2012, your client is Alice Guo. Is that correct?
03:38Yes, sir.
03:39Her family is not her family. Why Alice Guo?
03:41It's just Alice Guo.
03:44But during one of our hearings, when she was still coming here,
03:49she flatly denied that she knows you.
03:53She said that she doesn't know you.
03:56What can you say about that?
03:58She is lying.
04:00Alice Guo is not my client.
04:04She is the one who referred me.
04:07I talked to Hong Sheng. It's her.
04:11And then please assist her family.
04:14For every document that I need for the incorporation of the company,
04:19her family provided it to me.
04:22While Guo is still no-show in the hearing,
04:24the Office of the Solicitor General did not respond to the POGO ban.
04:28Is the opinion of Solgen that the POGOs inside the export processing zones,
04:36such as CESA and others, are also covered by the President's ban?
04:40In the statement made by the President of SONA,
04:47even though it's just a one-liner,
04:50the policy statement that he said is clear and has no qualifications,
04:57that all POGOs are banned.
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