Senator Risa Hontiveros on Monday bared information from the Anti-Money Laundering Council (AMLC) which links the alleged brother of former presidential adviser Michael Yang to the raided POGO hub in Bamban, Tarlac.
“Ang kumpanya ni Alice Guo, ang BAOFU, ay may direktang transaksyon sa joint account ng dalawang tao— ang isa si Yu Zheng Can, na incorporator ng Hong Sheng, ang POGO na ni-raid sa Bamban, Tarlac. Ang kasama niya sa account ay isang nagngangalang Hongjiang Yang,” Hontiveros said in a press conference.
“Who is Hongjiang Yang, you may ask? Kapatid po siya ni Michael Yang. Yes, the same Michael Yang na dating economic presidential adviser kuno ni Duterte. In short, the money of Michael Yang’s brother was used to fund HongSheng, the raided Bamban POGO,” she added.
Further, Hontiveros shared that Yang is an incorporator of Full Win Group of Companies, a firm owned by Duterte’s former presidential adviser, wherein Gerald Cruz is also an incorporator.
In the last Senate hearing, Hontiveros said that Cruz is an incorporator of Brickhartz Technologies Inc., an illegal POGO firm whose documents were seen in the raided Bamban POGO hub.
Cruz is also an incorporator of Pharmally Biological, according to Hontiveros.
Pharmally Biological is a firm that is being linked to Michael Yang. It was earlier reported as the sister company of Pharmally Pharmaceutical Corporation—the company that was involved in the government’s procurement of alleged overpriced COVID-19 supplies.
“Sabi ko nga, mukhang one big, happy Pharmally pala itong mga POGO at Pharmally members. Baka nga itong Pharmally pala ang ‘PHARM’ na kinalakihan ni Alice Guo,” she quipped.
Hontiveros said the Senate committee on women, children, family relations, and gender equality, which she leads, will continue to dig deeper into the issue.
“Hindi po kami hihinto hangga’t matunton at maputol ang mga ugat ng POGO,” she said.
GMA News Online sought the comment of Yang and his brother through the former’s legal counsel Raymond Fortun who said that he does not know Yang’s brother.
“I don’t know a Hongjian Yang po. I don’t even know that Michael has a brother,” he said.
Last week, Fortun maintained that Pharmally Biological is a different company from Pharmally Pharmaceutical which was involved in the Philippine government’s purchase of COVID-19 supplies during the pandemic.
“It was established during the Senate investigation that Pharmally Biological, where Mr. Michael Yang had shares, never had business in the Philippines,” Fortun told GMA Integrated News.
“Pharmally Biological is a different corporation from Pharmally Pharmaceutical, the company involved in the purchase of COVID supplies during the pandemic,” he added.—AOL, GMA Integrated News
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