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THE House Quad Committee on Thursday has cited anew Cassandra Li Ong in contempt for violating Section 11 Paragraph C of the House of Representatives’ rules of procedure governing inquiries in aid of legislation.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Quad Committee co-chairperson Rep. Joseph Stephen Paduano made the motion after Ong consistently refused to answer questions about her educational background.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Ong will be transferred to the Correctional Institution for Women (CIW) in Mandaluyong City on September 26 after serving her detention time from the first contempt order.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Paduano noted Ong lied about having a pending money laundering case, using it as grounds for invoking her right against self-incrimination to avoid answering questions about her transactions with Lucky South 99 and Whirlwind Corporations.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Deputy City Prosecutor (DCP) Benjamin Samson disclosed that there is no money laundering case filed against Ong yet.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n However, he said that there is a case that the Anti-Money Laundering Council, National Bureau of Investigation and the Presidential Anti-Organized Crime Commission filed against Bamban ex-Mayor Alice Guo, which includes Ong as a co-respondent, which is at the preliminary investigation stage at the Department of Justice.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n During earlier interpellation, Quad Comm co-chairperson Rep. Dan Fernandez divulged Ong has 11 bank accounts, including a life insurance policy.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Ong was unable to specify the number of bank accounts she owned during the previous hearings.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Fernandez also revealed that Ong’s boss, Duanren Wu, has seven bank accounts with a total transaction of P183 million.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n He exposed significant financial transactions linked to Ong and her company, Whirlwind Corporation, where she owns 58 percent and Wu holds a 20 percent stake.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n “Kasi you have like 23 transactions doon that involves almost P211 million. And with your 11 accounts, you have almost P198 million,” Fernandez stated.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Ong refused to answer or confirm these statements, invoking her right against self-incrimination.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n “Kasi the last time wala ka pang kaso. Kaya nga sinasabi namin sa iyo, cooperate with us. Pero ngayong may kaso ka na, iyan talaga ang mangyayari,” Fernandez said.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" THE House Quad Committee on Thursday has cited anew Cassandra Li Ong in contempt for violating Section 11 Paragraph C of the House of Representatives’<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8699,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8698"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8698"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8700,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8698\/revisions\/8700"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}