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00:00Next week, the Executive Session of Senators along with Dismissed Mayor Alice Guo will continue on the illegal smugglers in the country,
00:09as well as the public and businesses of Tony Yang.
00:16Breaking news, by Sandra Aguinaldo.
00:22In listening to the Senate regarding the illegal smugglers,
00:25Dismissed Mayor Alice Guo has something to say.
00:28Your Honor, I am not a mastermind. I can say that I am one of the victims.
00:33I think, after a long investigation, the committee already knows,
00:38especially by our Madam Chairman, who is really at the back of everything.
00:44Again, the Executive Session was interrupted.
00:47Are you willing to say who is the most guilty?
00:51Yes, Your Honor.
00:53Guo said that he will take care of his safety, that's why he can't say his name.
00:59He also wrote the name of the person who helped him escape,
01:04who was first depicted by some Senators as one of the leaders of illegal smuggling activities in the country.
01:11The Executive Session continued for a few minutes, because the Senators still have a session.
01:17But Senator J.V. Ejercito said that he has a plan for a short discussion.
01:23It will continue next week, and Guo will remember what happened.
01:28The relationship between Guo and the former Mayor Don Calugay, who is a former police officer,
01:35was also repeated in the hearing.
01:37Calugay explained about his possessions,
01:41especially the Happy Penguin Resort, where it is possible that Guo hid before he escaped.
01:47Senator J.V. Estrada pointed out that he had a lot of possessions when he was a mayor,
01:53which Calugay denied.
01:55The Mayor also denied that he has bank accounts with hundreds of millions of pesos in it.
02:01Calugay signed a waiver to open his bank accounts.
02:06Senator Riza Ontiveros also showed a picture of Calugay and the former PNP chief, Benjamin Acorda.
02:16We were shocked, Your Honor, because he was the former chief of police of Sual.
02:23Brother Alice, who is Wesley, was also in the picture.
02:26He also wants to see the highest rank in the PNP.
02:31Why does he want to see the chief of PNP?
02:34Nothing, Your Honor. I just joined.
02:37I have no idea. I just saw the picture.
02:40In another picture, Tony Yang is with Acorda.
02:44He is the brother of the former Presidential Economic Advisor, Michael Yang,
02:48who is now in jail.
02:50Acorda was not convicted in the hearing, but when the statement was taken,
02:55his only answer was that he loves the country and the PNP.
02:59What he did was what a Filipino should do as a police officer.
03:04Tony Yang said,
03:06We get to meet these officials especially when we need some help for the safety of our community.
03:14How long have you known the former chief of PNP?
03:20Because in this picture, it is an older picture.
03:26He was a regional director.
03:28Yes, when he was still in Cagayan as the director, we know each other.
03:32Yang is a Chinese national, but he also has a Philippine birth certificate.
03:38With the help of a translator, Tony Yang told that in 1998,
03:43he was the first to go to the Philippines when his grandfather asked him to do business here.
03:48He did not know how to speak Tagalog or English.
03:52Where were you born?
03:53I was born in China, in Fujian.
03:57How do you spell that?
03:58Fujian, and that means in Fujian province.
04:01Place of birth, Misamis Oriental.
04:04And you just told us that you were born in Xinjiang, in Fujian province.
04:09So, a lie on the birth certificate is another proof that your birth certificate is irregular.
04:16My grandfather who helped me come up with this birth certificate,
04:23and I'm not sure maybe he did this for the convenience of the business here.
04:28Yang Jianxin is his name in the Alien Certificate of Registration,
04:33but Antonio Maestrado Lim is his name in the Driver's License, TIN, and GAD Permit.
04:38Yang said that he has businesses in rice, steel, and wheels.
04:42No, not now.
04:44Right now, I don't have any related business with Apoco.
04:49Right now, how about before?
04:51Before, I had a transaction with an Apoco company for renting out a condo unit for them.
05:02The name that I had a transaction with is Qiu Shui.
05:05Senator Rizal-Teveros asked him about the Apoco Service Provider, Orun, where President Yang is listed.
05:13The reason why my name was in Orun is because during that time, I rented out the place to them.
05:20He was also assisted by Philippine Sanjad Steel.
05:24It's supposed to be a steel plant, but it looks like there are also pogo-like facilities inside.
05:31There are dorm-style facilities.
05:34There is a restricted area that is prohibited for us Filipinos.
05:38There is also a torturer.
05:41How many foreign nationals are in this facility of Sanjad?
05:48During their heyday, we were looking at around 2,000 pogo workers.
05:54But now, ma'am, there are only less than 300.
05:59Intel reports came to me, and of course, the documents that we saw, it all points to a pogo operation.
06:07I asked him if he is close to former President Rodrigo Duterte.
06:11I am not very close with former President Duterte, and I don't have contact with him.
06:20How did you meet the former president?
06:22Former President Duterte, he went to Cagayan, and we had a meeting with the Chinese business groups,
06:30and that's why we were able to meet him, and we had a photo with him.
06:34Sandra Aguinaldo, reporting for GMA Integrated News.
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