Sen. Gatchalian, may naging babala kay dating presidential spokesperson Harry Roque dahil sa hindi umano paggalang sa komite ng Senado
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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