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00:00There is a crucial personality that was confirmed by Dismissed Babantarlac Mayor Alice Guo in the executive session this Tuesday regarding the illegal Pogos.
00:09The former PNP chief, Benamin Acorda, is ready to confront the Senate. He was able to get a picture with some of the personalities that are being targeted by the Pogos.
00:18We have the first news, Jun Gaderacion.
00:22There was a few minutes of executive session by the Senators, Dismissed Babantarlac Mayor Alice Guo.
00:31The executive session was not wasted. I'm not at liberty to share with you. I haven't digested everything yet.
00:41If she is the least guilty, if she lied before, she has a reason.
00:50What's important is that this is an icebreaker. What's important is that Alice should be put first.
00:56I think there are masterminds behind this big operation. What's important is that she should say who it is.
01:03The chairperson of the Committee on Women and Children, Senator Risa Ontiveros, was not satisfied but...
01:10There was one crucial personality confirmed by Guo Guating. This corroborates a theory that the committee shared a month ago.
01:19Due to the confidentiality of the session, the Senator did not detail what theory it is or who is the personality that was confirmed.
01:27The executive session will continue next week.
01:30We invite the next speaker to the Senate, former PNP chief Benjamin Acorda Jr. and former PNP official,
01:38to get a picture with some of the personalities that are being targeted by the Pogos.
01:42We deem it important to give them a platform to respond in the interest of fairness.
01:48General Acorda gave us the assurance, members of the Council of Chiefs, that he's not doing anything wrong.
01:58He's not the PNP chief that is being targeted. General Villanueva also lost his visa.
02:07Acorda has not yet received an invitation from the Senate, but he's ready to face this.
02:12He admitted that he was hurt by the forgotten picture.
02:15I was really hurt because for 37 years, I tried to keep my records clean.
02:20But just for one picture or many pictures, with so many innuendos, it was destroyed immediately.
02:29But that's part of the service.
02:32According to Acorda, he was never involved in the operation of the illegal Pogo and the illegal transaction.
02:38On the same day, he ordered to raid the Pogo in Bambantarlac in March.
02:42I never tolerated or transacted illegal activities with my friends.
02:48Even if they are involved, I will help them.
02:50It's for the benefit of the people.
02:52I'm not involved in illegal transactions.
02:58Retired Brigadier General Raul Villanueva's PACOR official said on September 17
03:04that there is an unverified intel report that an ex-PNP chief helped Go and he's still in Payola.
03:12In his next meeting with the Senate, he asked for forgiveness from former PNP chiefs who were affected by what he said.
03:19I can face anybody squarely, eye to eye, without flinching an eye.
03:23I can say that we are clean there.
03:26I will leave because we have nothing to do there.
03:28If he escapes, I will not accept money from him.
03:32Sonny Alice and her brother, Sheila, who is under the custody of the National Bureau of Investigation,
03:40according to the Bureau of Immigration, she was transferred there due to security concerns.
03:45Under the custody of the Presidential Anti-Organized Crime Commission,
03:49Tony Young, former economic advisor to Michael Young,
03:53studied by the NBI and prosecutors, filed a complaint of falsification and use of alias against her.
04:01So that she will not be deported.
04:02So that she will have a reason to be left in the Philippines and face criminal charges.
04:06Young admitted that he's a Chinese national.
04:08But he was helped by his grandfather to get a birth certificate to be initiated in the Philippines.
04:15Various agencies are investigating the possible relationship between Young and POGO.
04:21We will look into the various businesses of Tony Young,
04:24the warehouse, the possible POGO.
04:28We will look into the possible crimes against him.
04:32There is a deportation case in the Bureau of Immigration against Young due to misrepresentation and undesirability.
04:40This is the first news.
04:42Jun Veneracion for GMA Integrated News.
04:54That's www.gmanews.tv.