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Dharel Placido, ABS-CBN News

<div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img src="http://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2017/news/02/16/alfredo-lim-nppa-021617.jpg"/><figcaption><div class="embed-desc">Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corporation (PAGCOR) President and COO Atty. Alfredo Lim. <cite>Allan Gomez/NPPA Images</cite></div></figcaption></figure></div><p>MANILA – A classmate and fraternity brother of President Rodrigo Duterte at the San Beda College of Law on Thursday denied that he was involved in the multi-million bribery-extortion scandal involving two former Bureau of Immigration (BI) officials.</p><p>Sacked BI deputy commissioners Al Argosino and Michael Robles earlier admitted that they “consolidated” the P48 million handed to them by former police officer Wally Sombero at the Dasmariñas, Cavite house of Duterte’s classmate and frat brother, Alfredo Lim (a namesake of the former Manila mayor. - Eds.) . </p><p>The money handed by Sombero supposedly came from online gaming tycoon Jack Lam, who had sought the release of over 1,000 undocumented Chinese workers arrested in a Pampanga casino last November 2016.</p><p>Speaking at a Senate hearing on Thursday, Lim, currently the president of the Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corporation (PAGCOR), said he had no knowledge about the consolidation of bribe money in a party in his house. </p><p>“The fact that Mr. Argosino and Robles came to my house, it just so happened that they brought the money there. It’s beyond me. I have 450 guests there. I don’t even remember having greeted them during that party because my visitors came one after the other,” Lim said.</p><figure class="op-interactive"><div id="IVS_ABS_Body_Video_1_Container"> <ivs-player id="IVS_ABS_Body_Video_1" data-ivs-spid="3001339" data-ivs-key="e8c22c015ca9eafa76f1e3edfa03c603" data-ivs-vid="1457232" data-ivs-floating="1"></ivs-player> <script src="https://player.ivideosmart.com/ivsplayer/v4/dist/js/iframe-parent.js"></script> <script src="https://player.ivideosmart.com/ivsplayer/v4/dist/js/loader.js"></script> </div></figure><p>Lim issued the denial after Senator Francis Escudero questioned why Argosino and Robles had to go all the way to Cavite to consolidate the money even though they came from the City of Dreams in Parañaque City, where the exchange of money with Sombero took place.</p><p>Lim dismissed insinuation that he was in on the alleged extortion scheme because of the influence he supposedly wields as PAGCOR president.</p><p>“When it comes to the issuance of e-Games license, it is the [PAGCOR] president, but when it comes to offshore gaming licenses, it is signed by the [PAGCOR] chairman,” Lim said.</p><p>Andrea Domingo is the current chairman and chief executive officer of PAGCOR. </p><p>The Lam bribery scandal has rocked the Duterte administration because the main personalities involved are fraternity brothers of the president.</p><p>The highest official implicated in the scandal, Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre II, is also a fraternity brother of Duterte. He has been accused of Trillanes of acting in connivance with Argosino and Robles.</p><p>Argosino and Robles have both claimed that they only received the cash as part of their intelligence operations. </p>

<p>MANILA – A classmate and fraternity brother of President Rodrigo Duterte at the San Beda College of Law on Thursday denied that he was involved in the multi-million bribery-extortion scandal involving two former Bureau of Immigration (BI) officials.</p>

MANILA – A classmate and fraternity brother of President Rodrigo Duterte at the San Beda College of Law on Thursday denied that he was involved in the multi-million bribery-extortion scandal involving two former Bureau of Immigration (BI) officials.

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Duterte frat brod denies involvement in bribery scandal

Dharel Placido,

ABS-CBN News

Published February 16, 2017 07:16 PM PHT

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Updated February 16, 2017 07:30 PM PHT

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Rodrigo Duterte

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