Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corporation chairman Alejandro Tengco tells the Senate former presidential spokesperson Harry Roque is listed as the ‘legal head’ of recently-raided POGO Lucky South 99.
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00:00Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corporation Chairman Alejandro Tengco tells the Senate
00:04former presidential spokesperson Harry Roque is listed as the legal head of recently raided
00:09Pogo, LuckySouth99.
00:12Tengco says Roque was included in the Pogo's organizational chart in the document attached
00:16to its license re-application.
00:18He also says Roque sought an appointment in July 2023 and eventually brought LuckySouth99's
00:24Catherine Cassandra Ong with him.
00:26Tengco says Ong, asked to be allowed to pay in installments after its debt to PAGCOR totaling
00:32US$500,000, remained unpaid.
00:35Ong claimed the company's authorized representative, Dennis Kunanan, allegedly did not remit the
00:40payments to PAGCOR.
00:41He says Roque told him he was there to help Ong as she was the aggrieved party.
00:46Following the hearing, Roque says he had never been a legal counsel to any illegal Pogo and
00:51quote, did not consent to his name's inclusion in documents submitted by LuckySouth99 to
00:55PAGCOR for its license renewal.