Alice Guo, iginiit na hindi siya mastermind kundi biktima; handa raw ituro ang mga utak sa ilegal na POGO sa Executive session

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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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