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Here are today’s headlines – the latest news in the Philippines and around the world:  - Alice Guo and siblings fled Philippines by boat - In rare move, House defers 2025 budget deliberations for Sara Duterte-led OVP  - COA issues P73-M notice of disallowance on Sara Duterte’s secret funds - Quiboloy group secures temporary protection order from Davao court  - Sandro Muhlach reveals forced drug use before alleged sexual assault   https://www.rappler.com/video/daily-wrap/august-27-2024/

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00:00Today on Rappler

00:12Sheila Guo, the supposed sister of Alice Guo, confirms they escaped the Philippines by boat.

00:18A House panel differs approving the budget of Vice President Sara Duterte's office after

00:23she refused to answer lawmakers' questions.

00:26The Commission on Audit orders Vice President Sara Duterte's office to return Php 73 million

00:31in confidential funds from 2022.

00:34A Davao court issues a temporary protection order in favor of fugitive preacher Apollo

00:38Kiboloy's church, the Kingdom of Jesus Christ.

00:41And actor Sandro Mulac reveals he was forced to use drugs before being sexually assaulted.

00:48Sheila Guo, the supposed sister of dismissed Bamban mayor Alice Guo, tells a Senate panel

00:53she, Alice, and their supposed brother Wesley Guo fled the Philippines by boat.

00:58But she claims to have forgotten specifics like dates and exact locations, so government

01:02operatives had to build a theory based on her testimony.

01:06She says the three of them were fetched from Tarlac by a van, and they reached the port

01:09after five hours.

01:11Sheila says she doesn't know the port's location.

01:14They then took a speedboat from this point, which the panel believes was somewhere in

01:17Luzon.

01:19After that, they rode a bigger boat for four days, then transferred yet again to a small

01:23boat.

01:24Sheila said the destination was Malaysia through Sabah.

01:27This conflicts with information supplied by the Philippine Anti-Organized Crime Commission,

01:31which said Alice Guo arrived in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, from Denpasar, Indonesia, on July

01:3618.

01:37A rare move.

01:39A panel of the House of Representatives defers approving the proposed budget of Vice President

01:44Sara Duterte's office after she refused to answer any of the panel's questions.

01:48Madam Chair, I will forgo the opportunity to defend the Office of the Vice President

01:522025 budget proposal.

01:55Duterte kept repeating this line, which visibly irked several lawmakers on the panel.

02:00Deferring the OVP's budget is unprecedented for the House.

02:03It normally approves the proposed amount only after a few easy questions.

02:07It's also in stark contrast to how the panel treated Duterte in 2022 and 2023, when they

02:13let her breathe through the proceedings in less than 20 minutes.

02:16This time, the hearing ran for more than five hours.

02:19The panel set another hearing for September 10.

02:22The OVP is requesting a budget of over 2 billion pesos for 2025, an increase from this year's

02:27budget of over 1.8 billion pesos.

02:32The Commission on Audit disallows 73 million pesos worth of confidential funds in the 2022

02:38budget of the Office of the Vice President.

02:40This allowance means the concerned agency is being ordered to return the funds in question.

02:45State auditors flagged the OVP for, quote, non-submission of documents evidencing the

02:49success of information gathering and or surveillance, broken down as follows.

02:55COA also flagged 3.5 million pesos worth of tables, chairs, desktop computers, and printers

03:01charged to confidential funds without specifying that they were intended for confidential operations.

03:07Citing a COA audit report, House Deputy Minority Leader Franz Castro also gave a breakdown of

03:13how the OVP used 125 million pesos in confidential funds in 2022.

03:21A regional court in Davao City issues a temporary protection order in favor of fugitive preacher

03:25Apolo K. Boloy's Kingdom of Jesus Christ Tuesday, August 27.

03:30It also directs the police to immediately remove everything restricting access to and

03:34from the group's 30-hectare compound.

03:36The court says authorities trampled not only on the property rights of the petitioners,

03:41but also the exercise of their religious and academic rights.

03:44Interior Secretary Benhur Abalo says police operations inside the KOJC property will continue,

03:50but authorities will follow the Davao court's order to remove barriers.

03:54The court order came hours after KOJC lawyer Israelito Torreon alleged the police began

03:59drilling inside a school owned by Kibuloy.

04:02Torreon questioned the use of an arrest warrant to justify searching and barricading the property.

04:07The police earlier said they suspect Kibuloy is hiding in the KOJC compound.

04:16Sandro Mulac says he was forced to use illegal drugs by GMA independent contractors Giorgio

04:21Nones and Richard Cruz before they sexually assaulted him.

04:25The 23-year-old artist said this at a Senate hearing Tuesday, August 27, which he joined

04:30virtually.

04:32He says after being introduced by Nones to a drunk Cruz, Nones made him drink wine, gave

04:36him a 500-peso bill, and took out an unidentified white substance.

04:41Senator Jingo Estrada asked Mulac if both Nones and Cruz, quote, took turns, to which

04:58Mulac replied, yes.

05:01Nones invoked his right against self-incrimination when asked if he would deny the allegations.

05:06Cruz was absent from the hearing.

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