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00:00A senator in favor of the approval of the Filipino citizenship of a Chinese businessman
00:06who was seen with a red flag,
00:08as part of the Umanoy connection in Pogo.
00:11Some senators defended.
00:14Mark Salazar witnessed this.
00:19This Monday, in the vote of 19 to 1 in the Senate plenary,
00:23the third and final reading was approved.
00:25The request of the Filipino citizenship of Lee Duan Wang,
00:29a Chinese businessman who is better known as Mark Ong,
00:33who has been doing business in the Philippines since 1991.
00:36It was a quick passage in the plenary,
00:39accompanied by other local bills.
00:42But wait,
00:42it was said that there was a disagreement with the request of Lee Duan Wang.
00:46I could not, in good conscience,
00:48vote to grant Filipino citizenship to Lee Duan Wang.
00:52And in my interpellation on how this happened,
00:55we learned that many and many red flags were hidden by Lee Duan Wang in Congress.
01:04Senator Riza Ontiveros was one of the Umanoy red flags.
01:09Lee Duan Wang is a junket operator and associate of Tuan Ren Wu,
01:14the so-called big boss of the raided Pogo in Porac, Pampanga.
01:20His business is in the same building of the business of Sir Z. Jiang,
01:26a self-confessed Chinese spy.
01:29He is connected to the Philippine Jinjiang UC Association,
01:34which is said to be part of the United Front Work of the Communist Party of China.
01:40And in the official documents of the SEC,
01:44he lied and presented as a Filipino, Mark Ko Ong.
01:50Ontiveros said that he did not punish Lee Duan Wang,
01:54but in front of the red flags,
01:56he should not immediately grant Filipino citizenship.
02:00Senator Sherwin Gatchalian said that when he heard the Umanoy red flags,
02:04he asked for additional requirements from Wang before agreeing to his citizenship bill.
02:10In order, all required documents were submitted.
02:16They asked for requirements from the National Intelligence Coordinating Council.
02:22There are certifications of these three agencies
02:24that they did not see anything bad and there are no negative reports.
02:30There is no concrete evidence that will be attributed to Lee Duan Wang in Pogo.
02:35In a normal process, the court petitioned the naturalization
02:39or process for a foreigner to become a Filipino citizen.
02:43But there are famous foreigners who were also granted Filipino citizenship
02:47through the law passed by the House and Senate,
02:51like some basketball players and a Canadian vlogger.
02:55Their citizenship bill includes an important contribution to our society.
03:01That's why Gatchalian was asked what is special about Lee Duan Wang.
03:05It's not your contribution, it's really an earth-shaking contribution.
03:10He owns a school, a small private school in Tagayan de Oro.
03:15He's been here for a long time, he was born here.
03:18For us, if your parents are Chinese, even if you were born here, you're still Chinese.
03:22So because he's been here for a long time, he knows how to pray, he's been doing business here for a long time.
03:28There are no derogatory reports against him, there is no issue of moral turpitude.
03:35In the profiling of the Presidential Anti-Organized Crime Commission or PAOC,
03:40which is one of the bases of Senator JVR,
03:43Wang has been in the Philippines for a long time and his children are studying here.
03:48He's also an active member of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce and the Filipino Chinese Chamber of Commerce.
03:55GMA Integrated News is also collecting information about Lee Duan Wang on this issue.
04:01For GMA Integrated News, I am Mark Salazar, your witness.