During the House QuadComm hearing on EJKs and POGOs on Wednesday, November 27, the name “Willie Ong” was brought up and identified as allegedly one of five incorporators of the Empire 999 POGO firm in Mexico, Pampanga.
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00:01Who is Willy Ong Pidea?
00:22Willy Ong Mam, also known as Kai Kee Ming,
00:25is one of the five identified incorporators of Empire 999 Realty Incorporated.
00:31And we have researched, Mam, that he has also a lot of co-incorporators.
00:36I wish to believe that you have looked into the articles of incorporation of Empire 999 already.
00:43Yes, Mam.
00:44May I know if you have checked already the citizenship, the nationality of Willy Ong?
00:49Mam, it was the NBI who has the follow-up of the operation.
00:56But on the basis of the information that was shared to you already by the NBI,
01:01would you know kung ano pong nationality ni Willy Ong?
01:15We have no knowledge of that, Mam.
01:17May we hear from NBI?
01:21NBI, have we checked the nationality of Willy Ong?
01:25Madam Chair, Mr. Chair, for the NBI,
01:32may I ask that Attorney Jonathan Galicia, the head of our task force anti-illegal drugs, be recognized?
01:47Mr. Chairman.
02:03Yes, Mr. Chairman.
02:05Mr. Chair, the NBI is waiting to be recognized.
02:11Attorney Galicia, you are recognized.
02:13Please respond to the question of Congresswoman Luisa.
02:15Have we checked on the nationality of Willy Ong?
02:18Yes, Your Honor.
02:20How about the nationality of ADT Yang?
02:23Yes, Your Honor.
02:24May we know the extent of ownership of Willy Ong over Empire 999?
02:30I don't have the records right now, Mr. Chairman, but we already submitted our findings to the committee.
02:36Would you know, NBI, whether this Empire 999 is a Filipino corporation or otherwise?
02:43Supposedly, it's a Filipino-owned corporation,
02:50but it turns out that all the incorporators of the company are Chinese nationals, Mr. Chairman.
02:57Having said that, Attorney Galicia, would it be correct to say that Empire 999 is not a Filipino corporation,
03:04and instead a Chinese corporation?
03:06Yes, Mr. Chairman.
03:08And this brings us to the next question.
03:12How were they able to incorporate, considering that they are all Chinese nationals?
03:18Your Honor, based on our investigation, they were able to secure a birth certificate which they falsified.
03:27But after verifying with the National Statistics Office,
03:32we were able to find out that those birth certificates were spurious.
03:38And this corporate identity of Empire 999 was used to be able to acquire the warehouse
03:44which was formerly owned by architect Alex Tumang.
03:47Is that correct, NBI?
03:49Yes, Your Honor.
03:51Mr. Chair, I wish to manifest that we are at the point where we are connecting already
03:56the dangerous drugs with the illegal acquisition of land.
04:01We may recall that the 560 kilos of shabu were found in Empire 999 owned by Chinese nationals,
04:12all Chinese nationals, among them are Willy Ong and A.D.T. Yang.