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Probe links Pharmally with POGOs
By Nidz Godino
“Lin Wei Xiong is drug personality…he was caught in shabu laboratory in Tagaytay in 2004,” personal appearance of Rose Nono Lin , Filipino wife of Allan Lim establishes links between Pharmally Pharmaceutical Corp., engaged in overpricing of medical supplies during Duterte administration, and illegal Philippine offshore gaming operators or POGO.
Upon interpellation, Lin told leaders and members of quad committee of House of Representatives last Nov. 7 that she is spouse of Lim for the last 11 years and that she knows nothing of his alleged other Chinese names, like Lin Wei Xiong.
She denied that her husband, Hong Kong national, had since been in hiding in Dubai, revealing to House members they just met each other last Nov. 1 in the island city-state, where he supervises several of their companies, while she stays in the country.
Lin confirmed and acknowledged to panel chairman Rep. Robert Ace Barbers that Lim was indeed her husband based on the pictures that Surigao del Norte congressman showed, but denied allegations foreigner is drug trafficker.
Barbers, presiding officer of quad comm, heads House committee on dangerous drugs.
Lin related that she met her husband in early 2009 when she was still working with hotel, adding Allan Lim has been entrepreneur and has been here in the country since 2005. Record of birth certificate of Lin and Lim’s child indicated their son was born on Dec. 6, 2004.
In the course of the hearing, Lin also admitted that POGO is just one of her businesses.
One of them is Xionwei Technology, dubbed as “mother of all POGOs” on the basis that it lent its license to several POGO companies across the country, including one headed by dismissed Bamban mayor Alice Guo as well as Lucky South 99 in Porac, Pampanga.
Lin likewise acknowledged she designated her niece as stockholder and incorporator of holding firms she formed, to which Michael Yang economic adviser to former president Rodrigo Duterte has also been partner.
She admitted before quad comm that she and her husband control most of these companies, like Paili Holdings, Xionwei Technology and Full Win Group of Companies.
Rep. Dan Fernandez, co-chairman of the quad comm and chairman of the House committee on public order and safety, also showed screenshots of Lin’s conversation with their employees Ted Lazaro and Alvin Constantino.
Exchange of communication indicated that Lin directed Constantino to pull out their equipment in Porac, Pampanga after authorities conducted raid and ordered its closure, in compliance with directive of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr..
In a related development, Moro Lazo, Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency director-general, confirmed at the same hearing Lin Wei Xiong of Pharmally and Allan Lim – who has since been on their drug list is one and same person.
“We were able to talk to confidential informant…he is reliable informant…when he talked to us, he hadn’t even seen presentation of Colonel Acierto before committee on dangerous drugs, when we took down details of what he was telling us, it confirms some of the statements of Colonel Acierto,” PDEA chief told quad committee.
Quoting PDEA informant, Lazo said Lin and Allan Lim also went by names Allan Lin, Jeffrey Lin, Jeff Lin, Ayong, Lin Wei Xiong and Wen Li Chen. “These names all are confirmed by the different statements being heard before quad comm.”
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