Tony Yang, elder brother of Michael Yang, admits faking a Filipino birth certificate with the name Antonio Maestrado Lim, supposedly born in Misamis Oriental.
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00:00Tony Yang, elder brother of Michael Yang, admits faking a Filipino birth certificate
00:05with the name Antonio Maestrado Lim, supposedly born in Misamis Oriental.
00:09He tells the Senate Tuesday, September 24, it was his maternal grandfather who helped
00:14him process the birth certificate.
00:16Yang says he obtained the birth certificate two to three years after his arrival in the
00:20Philippines when he was 28 years old.
00:22He came to the Philippines in 1998 or 1999 and says he does not have a Philippine passport,
00:28only a Chinese one, which says he was born in Fujian, China.
00:31Yang was able to establish himself in the business community, particularly in Cagayan
00:35de Oro.
00:36At the House of Representatives' Quad Committee hearing on September 19, Rep. Dan Fernandez
00:41said Yang was caught in 2021 smuggling rice through Sanjia in Cagayan de Oro.