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Here are today’s headlines – the latest news in the Philippines and around the world:  - Is a former PNP chief on Alice Guo’s payroll? - Calugay’s staff assisted with Alice Guo’s affidavit notarization - Harry Roque's wealth increase puts him in POGO probe hot list - Quiboloy whistleblowers urge KOJC followers to get out while they can - DOH worried as dengue cases rise by 68%  - Thai baby hippo internet star draws thousands to her zoo   https://www.rappler.com/video/daily-wrap/september-17-2024/

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00:00Today on Rappler

00:13Agencies are validating rumors a former police chief is on Alice Guo's payroll

00:17Despite denials of a close relationship between Mayors Dong Kalugay and Alice Guo, it turns

00:21out Kalugay's staff helped Guo in getting her affidavit notarized

00:25A P125 million peso increase in the 2018 cash flow of companies owned by Harry Roque

00:30raises lawmakers' suspicions

00:32Kibuloy whistleblowers urge KOJC followers to get out while they still can

00:37The Department of Health is worried over the 68% rise in dengue cases

00:41And Thailand's internet star baby hippo Moo Deng draws big crowds to her zoo

00:48Concerned agencies are validating rumors a former Philippine National Police chief helped

00:52dismissed Bambantarloc Mayor Alice Guo flee the country

00:56Guo supposedly paid 200 million pesos to a high-ranking immigration official

01:00In a Senate hearing Tuesday, September 17, Senator Risa Ontiveros asks if others in the

01:04government helped her escape

01:06It's not a PNP unit, but personalities.

01:09I think it was mentioned the former chief PNP

01:13PAGCOR Senior Vice President of the Security Monitoring Cluster, retired General Raul Villanueva

01:19He could not confirm what kind of support this former police chief allegedly provided

01:22to Guo and other details

01:24The conversation there was like a monthly payroll

01:32Ever since

01:36While Suwal Pangasinan Mayor Dong Kalugay continues to deny any romantic or business

01:40relationship with Alice Guo, it turns out his executive assistant helped the dismissed

01:44mayor find a lawyer to notarize her affidavit for a human trafficking case

01:48In a Senate hearing Tuesday, September 17, Guo's staff members Kath Salazar and G. Pepito

01:53explain how they got Guo's affidavit notarized despite the mayor's illegal departure from

01:57the country in July

01:58Guo says she pre-signed the last document of the affidavit before she escaped the country

02:04Following Guo's instructions, Salazar contacted Kalugay staff member Cheryl Medina for help

02:09with notarizing the document

02:10Medina then connected Guo's staff to Khad Dante and lawyer Elmer Galicia

02:15Senator Sherwin Gatchalian says Galicia lied when he said that Guo signed the affidavit

02:19in front of him

02:20On Tiveros' notes, with Kalugay's assistant helping Guo, it seems unlikely they don't

02:24have a close relationship

02:25A Php 125 million increase in the 2018 cash flow of companies owned by Harry Roque raises

02:33lawmakers' suspicions he may have benefited from POGOS

02:37Finances of the companies PH2 Lot 37, Pinewood Holdings, and Biancham Holdings significantly

02:42rose between 2017 and 2018

02:45Financial statements obtained by Rappler show both companies' cash flow went from under

02:49Php 2 million to tens of millions after Roque became Rodrigo Duterte's spokesperson in

02:53November 2017

02:55This was also when POGO started to operate and flourish in the country

02:58Roque came under congressional scrutiny after it was discovered he had lawyered for a company

03:02that leased land to a POGO

03:04A document also stated Roque as the legal head of a POGO

03:07Testimony said he once liaised between a POGO and a government agency

03:11Roque denies ties to any POGO or earning from them

03:14He says the windfall came from the sale of a family property

03:19Three women who helped expose doomsday preacher Apolo Kibuloy's cryings now urge his followers

03:24to leave what they call his cult while they can

03:35And your foundation is crumbling down

03:38In a Rappler Talk episode, former Kingdom of Jesus Christ members Arlene Stone, Faith

03:42Killion, and Renita Fernandez detailed the group's vindictiveness in response to their

03:46expose in 2021

03:48Killion says her and her husband's social media accounts were hacked

03:51Stone says she was defamed online

03:53Fernandez says she fears retaliation from her brother who is a KOJC member

03:57They all reside outside the Philippines

04:00Kibuloy and five of his associates are now in jail on sexual child abuse and trafficking charges

04:07The health department is concerned over the rise in dengue cases amid the rainy season

04:11As of September 6, the Philippines records almost 209,000 dengue cases

04:15This is 68% higher than the documented cases in the same period in 2023

04:20Health Secretary Ted Herbosa says Central Luzon, Western Visayas, and Central Visayas

04:25saw a 40% increase in dengue cases

04:28Some of the local government units in these regions declared a state of calamity as hospitals

04:32get swamped with dengue patients

04:34Except for areas in the three regions that declared a state of calamity, Herbosa says

04:38hospitals are not yet overwhelmed with dengue cases

04:41People can get dengue through infected mosquitoes

04:44The DOH is calling on the public to destroy mosquito breeding grounds and ensure surroundings

04:48are clean

04:51Thailand's latest celebrity, baby hippo Moo Deng, is drawing big crowds to her zoo

04:56Moo Deng, whose name means bouncing pig in Thai, has millions of fans on social media

05:00following her clumsy adventures, including trying to nibble her handler despite still

05:04lacking teeth

05:05The pink-cheeked hippo, whose siblings are called Pork Stew and Sweet Pork, was sitting

05:09happily in a bowl of vegetables and other snacks when Reuters visited the zoo

05:13Eight hundred visitors used to be the norm for Khao Kyao Open Zoo in Chonburi Province

05:17during the rainy season

05:18But with Moo Deng's popularity, the zoo gets 3,000 to 4,000 visitors on weekdays and will

05:23clock on 20,000 visitors over the weekend

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