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00:00A crucial personality is being signed in the Executive Session of Dismissed Bamban Mayor Alice Guo
00:06who has been involved in the illegal operation of POGO.
00:09The former PNP Chief Benamin Acorda Jr. is ready to face the Senate.
00:13Witness, Jun Veneracion.
00:16There was already a few-minute Executive Session yesterday of the Senators
00:23with Dismissed Bamban Mayor Alice Guo.
00:26I don't want to waste the Executive Session I just did.
00:29You know, I'm not limited to sharing.
00:33I don't think I've been able to guide them all.
00:36If she is the least guilty,
00:41if she lied before, she has a reason.
00:45This is an important icebreaker.
00:47What's important is to put Alice first.
00:51I think there are masterminds behind this big operation.
00:55It's important for her to say who it is.
00:58But the Chairperson of the Committee on Women and Children, Sen. Risa Ontiveros,
01:03is not very satisfied.
01:05But...
01:06There was one crucial personality confirmed by Mokwa Ping.
01:11This corroborates a theory that the committee shared a month ago.
01:15Because of the confidentiality of the session,
01:17the Senator did not detail what story this is
01:20or who confirmed the personality.
01:23The Executive Session will continue next week.
01:26We invite the next speaker to the Senate,
01:29former PNP Chief Benjamin Acorda Jr.
01:32and other PNP officials
01:34to share their story with some of the personalities
01:36who are involved in POGO.
01:38We deem it important to give them a platform
01:41to respond in the interest of fairness.
01:44General Acorda gave us assurance
01:48from the members of the Council of Chiefs
01:52that he did not do anything wrong.
01:54And he is not the PNP Chief that we are talking about.
01:57Because he did not provide a source of information,
02:01General Benjamin Acorda.
02:02No invitations have been received from the Senate from Acorda.
02:06But he is ready to face this.
02:08He admitted that he was hurt by the false image.
02:11It really hurts because for 37 years,
02:13I tried to keep my records clean.
02:16So just for one picture or many pictures,
02:21with so many inventions,
02:23it was destroyed immediately.
02:24But it was included in the service.
02:28Acorda insisted that he was never involved
02:30in the illegal POGO operation
02:32or any illegal transactions.
02:34On the same day,
02:35he ordered the raid of POGO in Bambantarlac last March.
02:38I never tolerated or transacted illegal activities with my friends.
02:44Even if they are close to me,
02:45I will help them for their country.
02:47And if there are things that need to be discussed,
02:51I will do it legally.
02:52I did not do any illegal transactions.
02:54Retired Vigil General Raul Villanueva said on September 17
03:00that there is an unverified intel report
03:02that an ex-PNP chief helped Go and he was in Payo, Lapanya, Umano.
03:08Following his confrontation with the Senate yesterday,
03:10he asked the former PNP chiefs
03:13who were affected by what he said.
03:15I can face anybody squarely, eye to eye,
03:17without flinching an eye.
03:20I can say that we are clean.
03:22That's why I left.
03:23We don't have a problem there.
03:24When he ran away,
03:25I did not accept money from him.
03:29Along with his escape,
03:30his brother, Sheila,
03:32who is in custody of the National Bureau of Investigation,
03:36according to the Bureau of Immigration,
03:38was transferred there because of security concerns.
03:41In the custody of the Presidential Anti-Organized Crime Commission,
03:45his brother, Ton Yang,
03:46a former economic advisor, Michael Yang,
03:49is being studied by the NBI and prosecutors
03:52who filed a complaint of falsification and use of alias to him.
03:57So that he will not be deported.
03:58So that he will have a reason to be left in the Philippines
04:00and face criminal charges.
04:02Yang admitted yesterday that he is a Chinese national.
04:05But his grandfather helped him
04:07to get a birth certificate
04:09issued in the Philippines.
04:11Various agencies are investigating
04:13the possible relationship between Yang and the POGO.
04:17We will look into the various businesses of Tony Yang.
04:20The warehouse, the possible POGO.
04:24We will see what can be more serious crimes against him.
04:28Yang has a deportation case in the Bureau of Immigration
04:31because of misrepresentation and undesirability.
04:35For GMA Integrated News,
04:37I am Jun Veneracion, your witness.
05:05Thanks for watching.