Here are today’s headlines – the latest news in the Philippines and around the world:
- Is a former PNP chief on Alice Guo’s payroll?
- Calugay’s staff assisted with Alice Guo’s affidavit notarization
- Harry Roque's wealth increase puts him in POGO probe hot list
- Quiboloy whistleblowers urge KOJC followers to get out while they can
- DOH worried as dengue cases rise by 68%
- Thai baby hippo internet star draws thousands to her zoo
https://www.rappler.com/video/daily-wrap/september-17-2024/
- Is a former PNP chief on Alice Guo’s payroll?
- Calugay’s staff assisted with Alice Guo’s affidavit notarization
- Harry Roque's wealth increase puts him in POGO probe hot list
- Quiboloy whistleblowers urge KOJC followers to get out while they can
- DOH worried as dengue cases rise by 68%
- Thai baby hippo internet star draws thousands to her zoo
https://www.rappler.com/video/daily-wrap/september-17-2024/
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00:00Today on Rappler
00:13Agencies are validating rumors a former police chief is on Alice Guo's payroll
00:17Despite denials of a close relationship between Mayors Dong Kalugay and Alice Guo, it turns
00:21out Kalugay's staff helped Guo in getting her affidavit notarized
00:25A P125 million peso increase in the 2018 cash flow of companies owned by Harry Roque
00:30raises lawmakers' suspicions
00:32Kibuloy whistleblowers urge KOJC followers to get out while they still can
00:37The Department of Health is worried over the 68% rise in dengue cases
00:41And Thailand's internet star baby hippo Moo Deng draws big crowds to her zoo
00:48Concerned agencies are validating rumors a former Philippine National Police chief helped
00:52dismissed Bambantarloc Mayor Alice Guo flee the country
00:56Guo supposedly paid 200 million pesos to a high-ranking immigration official
01:00In a Senate hearing Tuesday, September 17, Senator Risa Ontiveros asks if others in the
01:04government helped her escape
01:06It's not a PNP unit, but personalities.
01:09I think it was mentioned the former chief PNP
01:13PAGCOR Senior Vice President of the Security Monitoring Cluster, retired General Raul Villanueva
01:19He could not confirm what kind of support this former police chief allegedly provided
01:22to Guo and other details
01:24The conversation there was like a monthly payroll
01:32Ever since
01:36While Suwal Pangasinan Mayor Dong Kalugay continues to deny any romantic or business
01:40relationship with Alice Guo, it turns out his executive assistant helped the dismissed
01:44mayor find a lawyer to notarize her affidavit for a human trafficking case
01:48In a Senate hearing Tuesday, September 17, Guo's staff members Kath Salazar and G. Pepito
01:53explain how they got Guo's affidavit notarized despite the mayor's illegal departure from
01:57the country in July
01:58Guo says she pre-signed the last document of the affidavit before she escaped the country
02:04Following Guo's instructions, Salazar contacted Kalugay staff member Cheryl Medina for help
02:09with notarizing the document
02:10Medina then connected Guo's staff to Khad Dante and lawyer Elmer Galicia
02:15Senator Sherwin Gatchalian says Galicia lied when he said that Guo signed the affidavit
02:19in front of him
02:20On Tiveros' notes, with Kalugay's assistant helping Guo, it seems unlikely they don't
02:24have a close relationship
02:25A Php 125 million increase in the 2018 cash flow of companies owned by Harry Roque raises
02:33lawmakers' suspicions he may have benefited from POGOS
02:37Finances of the companies PH2 Lot 37, Pinewood Holdings, and Biancham Holdings significantly
02:42rose between 2017 and 2018
02:45Financial statements obtained by Rappler show both companies' cash flow went from under
02:49Php 2 million to tens of millions after Roque became Rodrigo Duterte's spokesperson in
02:53November 2017
02:55This was also when POGO started to operate and flourish in the country
02:58Roque came under congressional scrutiny after it was discovered he had lawyered for a company
03:02that leased land to a POGO
03:04A document also stated Roque as the legal head of a POGO
03:07Testimony said he once liaised between a POGO and a government agency
03:11Roque denies ties to any POGO or earning from them
03:14He says the windfall came from the sale of a family property
03:19Three women who helped expose doomsday preacher Apolo Kibuloy's cryings now urge his followers
03:24to leave what they call his cult while they can
03:35And your foundation is crumbling down
03:38In a Rappler Talk episode, former Kingdom of Jesus Christ members Arlene Stone, Faith
03:42Killion, and Renita Fernandez detailed the group's vindictiveness in response to their
03:46expose in 2021
03:48Killion says her and her husband's social media accounts were hacked
03:51Stone says she was defamed online
03:53Fernandez says she fears retaliation from her brother who is a KOJC member
03:57They all reside outside the Philippines
04:00Kibuloy and five of his associates are now in jail on sexual child abuse and trafficking charges
04:07The health department is concerned over the rise in dengue cases amid the rainy season
04:11As of September 6, the Philippines records almost 209,000 dengue cases
04:15This is 68% higher than the documented cases in the same period in 2023
04:20Health Secretary Ted Herbosa says Central Luzon, Western Visayas, and Central Visayas
04:25saw a 40% increase in dengue cases
04:28Some of the local government units in these regions declared a state of calamity as hospitals
04:32get swamped with dengue patients
04:34Except for areas in the three regions that declared a state of calamity, Herbosa says
04:38hospitals are not yet overwhelmed with dengue cases
04:41People can get dengue through infected mosquitoes
04:44The DOH is calling on the public to destroy mosquito breeding grounds and ensure surroundings
04:48are clean
04:51Thailand's latest celebrity, baby hippo Moo Deng, is drawing big crowds to her zoo
04:56Moo Deng, whose name means bouncing pig in Thai, has millions of fans on social media
05:00following her clumsy adventures, including trying to nibble her handler despite still
05:04lacking teeth
05:05The pink-cheeked hippo, whose siblings are called Pork Stew and Sweet Pork, was sitting
05:09happily in a bowl of vegetables and other snacks when Reuters visited the zoo
05:13Eight hundred visitors used to be the norm for Khao Kyao Open Zoo in Chonburi Province
05:17during the rainy season
05:18But with Moo Deng's popularity, the zoo gets 3,000 to 4,000 visitors on weekdays and will
05:23clock on 20,000 visitors over the weekend