[Music] [Music] In the first installment of the investigative series, we presented undeniable proof of widespread and despicable surveillance mass voyerism, the falsification of high-action monitoring reports, and a diabolical cover up by senior Okarda Manila executives with complete awareness and full visibility of the disgusting crimes by the entire Okarda Manila board of directors. The video report went viral almost immediately, amassing 125,000 views and almost 5,000 subscribers in just a few days as horrified and disgusted viewers bore witness to the shocking criminal activities committed by trusted surveillance operators and the deplorable and unethical cover up of the crimes by executives and board members that are utterly void of morality. Shareholders, employees, and other sensible viewers may have expected the new sitting president, Noubuki Sato, to immediately launch an independent third-party investigation into the clearly proven crimes committed by his own executives, but he did not. The Okarta board's initial response was to block YouTube access for all employees and instruct staff to ignore communications from Project Panagutin. But when the views and subscribers kept rising, Okarda's legal team escalated to their usual modus operandi, threats and intimidation. Unfazed by Okarda Manila's bully tactics. Project Panagutin responded, urging Okarda Manila's board to address the crimes committed in their property that they have always been aware of. Okarda Manila also filed a defamation complaint, so YouTube blocked the video report in the Philippines, but it was too late. The evidence of Okarda Manila's betrayal of their code of ethics and victimization of countless innocent Filipina employees had circulated through all entertainment city, integrated resort staff, and even globally, reaching every distant corner of the gaming industry. The surveillance voyerism segment's popularity was also captured by multiple relevant authorities who will finally be investigating the consistent and wretched misconduct by Okarta Manila executives. To resist Okarda Manila's attempted suppression of truth, be sure to download the video reports once they are published. The reports are available on YouTube and Rumble, and subscribers can stay uptodate by following Project Panagutin onx.com. Behind the glittering lights of Okada, Manila lies a darker truth. A story of mass corruption at the highest levels. Sanctioned money laundering of stolen government funds by affiliated political leaders. Graph patron extortion, kidnapping ransoms, surveillance voyerism, gaming regulation violations, building and fire code infractions, and even murder. Okada Manila, like other resorts, continues to suffer dwindling gaming revenue, largely because of the dip in VIP gaming tourism. But there is a very different very clear reason for a consistently and severely compromised EBIT DAR that has never reached its full potential since the unjust ousting of founder and original chairman Kazouo Okada. Graph whether it's bid manipulation, ghost procurement, construction rework scams or vendor collusion and price hiking. Graph inflates the operating costs of a company therefore lowering the EBITDA. Unfortunately for Okada Manila employees, the IBIT DAR is the primary catalyst for staff benefits and bonuses, which is why Okarda Manila is one of the only large integrated resorts in the world that has no guaranteed annual bonus outside of the Philippines standard 13th month pay. Okarda Manila is utterly riddled with graft from its own executives. And the first example involves the star of the surveillance vyurism segment of this series, surveillance vice president Mike Wait. The provider of Okarda Manila's synactic surveillance system is systems integrator Empire Automation. Surveillance VP Mike Wait has always had a very close relationship with the owner and operators of Empire Automation even before joining Okarda Manila. Of course, Mike Wade failed to announce that serious conflict of interest to the Okarta Manila board, knowing full well his own ill intent and how grossly detrimental that relationship was going to be for Okada Manila. Surveillance VP Mike Wait had no hesitation in manipulating and defrauding the bidding process for the contract package CP51.07 to supply the surveillance system for Okarda Manila. The original executive briefing Mike Weight submitted to the Okarda Manila board detailing the basis of his recommendation in procuring the synactic surveillance system over competing bids was strikingly similar to letters emailed to Mike Weight by John Katnik, then VP of global gaming for Sactics. Almost the entire executive briefing was a direct copy and paste from the letters of John Katnik of Sactics. Word for word, line by line, the executive briefing for a $13 million US tender was essentially written by one of the prospective bidders. And what wasn't copied and pasted from Sactic's letters was copied and pasted from Wikipedia. A common peril of defrauded tender bids is that when contractors pay their way in, they don't need to provide quality products and services. So Mike Weight circumvented the quality assurance and completion witnessing process under the farical guise of protecting sensitive surveillance data. And when Empire Automation failed to complete their contractual obligations to Aarda Manila, the surveillance technical services manager refused to sign the completion documentation. So Mike Wait signed it for him and Empire Automation was paid in full. It was at that point the real dirty business could begin. and Mike Weight along with his board member protector Kenji Sugiamyama could graft Okarda Manila for enough money to live very lavish lifestyles. In late March 2019, Okada Manila had a large order for CCTV equipment for upcoming new Okarta Club as well as hotel and back of house, the majority of which would be provided by single sourced vendor Empire Automation. So, order RFD4686 was created with a cost of just over $1.1 million. A few weeks later, in the beginning of April 2019, Mike Wait received a notification from corporate planning that because the cost of order RFD4686 was over 50 million pesos, it would be scrutinized by the XCOM. Mike withdrew the order request immediately and then a few months later in August resubmitted as three separate orders for new Okarta Club Hotel and back of house. So each amount would be under the equivalent of 50 million pesos and would avoid XCOM scrutiny. The new order for new Okarta Club would be just over $700,000. The new order for hotel would be over $400,000. The new order for back of house would be almost $300,000, bringing the new total cost to $1.4 million, an increase of over $200,000 or 22% from Mike Wait's original order in spite of the already additional cost of over $200,000. Mike continued to shuffle and change the order requests, unscrupulously blaming his own directors for cancellations and delays. In an astonishing display of greed, in just the next month, Mike Wait canled the new orders for hotel and back of house and resubmitted again. This time at a cost of almost $700,000 for hotel and almost $400,000 for back of house. From the new orders cancelled just the previous month, Mike Wait had increased the cost of the hotel contingent by over $200,000 or 49% and the back of house contingent by $100,000 or 36%, raising the total cost yet again to a total of just under $2 million, an almost $600,000 or 50% increase in just 6 months. But Mike Wait may have pushed his graph too far as a group of his managers and directors had become curious regarding his consistent procurement sabotage and the dramatic price increase from the original order. After inspecting all of the order variations, Mike Weight's employees discovered an incredibly suspicious price increase of almost 100% for Cactics channel licenses provided by Empire Automation. When questioned, Empire Automation responded, claiming the manufacturer, Sinacttics, was responsible for doubling the cost of channel licenses. Sectics, of course, denied any significant cost increase from their end. After Mike Weight's very large orders from Empire Automation were approved and payment made, the cost of channel licenses reverted back to the original amount and have remained so for several years since. Mike Weight's graft was so blatant and costly that the inspecting group of his staff deliberated on the best way to protect Okarta from further theft. The evidence was collected and a senior staff member submitted the evidence to the board of directors via whistleblower channels with the recommendation of an immediate third-party investigation. But no investigation ever took place because it was shut down by the secondary beneficiary of the Empire Automation Graft, Kenji Sugiamyama. It took several years for common sense to prevail, but eventually Empire Automation was deacredited and expelled from the Okarda Manila site. The pause in Mike Weight's craft did not last long, though. In late 2024, he was able to bring Empire Automation back to Okarda for an overpriced system upgrade of $2.5 million US as he joined forces with Okada Manila's graft kingpins, Mitsukazu Nakarta, and Ricardo Awas. At Okarda Manila, if you want to get away with bid manipulation, vendor collusion, price hiking, and graft, you just need to share your corruption money with a board member. If you want to get away with the cover up of voyerism, report falsification, and violations of the labor code, you just need to share your corruption money with a board member. If you want to get away with bullying, intimidation, and harassment of your local Filipino employees, you just have to share your corruption money with a board member. The graft of surveillance VP Mike Weight is large and ghastly, but it's completely dwarfed by the gargantuan theft of the Okarda Manila supply chain graft syndicate. The graft chain syndicate steals millions of US dollars every year in the form of bid manipulation, vendor collusion, ghost procurement, and rework scams. Mitsukazunu Nakata is the head of the Okada Manila graph chain syndicate and shares corruption money with other board members like James Laorenzana and Kenji Sugyama to control board approvals and internal audits. Also on the syndicate payroll is attorney Jerome Sarte and Fenolin Reyes of HR who wield a fake independent disciplinary unit and together act as a labor force death squad to purge whistleblowers and any potential threat to the syndicate. Mitsukazu Nakarta's former right-hand Liisa Carlos and current left-hand attorney Janette Tayag, who is not a real attorney, but an imposter, coordinate with the colluding vendor companies to organize Narta's payments in either cash or via bank deposit. They also deliver cash payments to the other senior members of the syndicate. Multiple supply chain sources have informed project Panagutin that Liza Carlos bragged about the money she was making from Mitsukazu Nakarta enough to construct her very own resort in Beol. Ricardo Aguas recruits bidding companies of large contracts into the syndicate's fold and then enlists graph chain henchmen Frederick Zulueta and Shellami Palaganas to either manipulate the bidding process in the colluding vendor's favor or by tagging the colluding company as a sole distributor to avoid attender bidding altogether as they did for Orbit Electrics and Lighting, a company with no identifiable website or established online presence who continue to pay the graph chain syndicate to be the sole provider for enormous quantities of price hiked LED lighting to Okarda Manila. Ricardo Aguas has additional graph chain henchmen Jericho Miranda and Christian Bangsal to contact Okarda Manila vendors and solicit or extort kickback payments for pending procurement across every Okarda Manila division. Jericho Miranda and Christian Banksal will contact the vendors and create an imaginary problem offering their services to help push through the order. They convince vendors that purchase orders will be cancelled unless they are paid a commission. Project Panagutin has received receipt stubs for check payments a marketing supplier paid directly to Christian Bangsal. Project Panagutin does not publish the identities of sources or materials that would expose them. Although the graft chain syndicate's contract manipulation does make them rich, the most lucrative graft comes from the scam devised by the graft kingpin himself, Mitsukazu Nakata, netting the syndicate several million US a year at the expense of Okarda Manila's profits for construction contracts at Okarda Manila before recommending payment release for contractor companies. Consultant firm ECOM requires the full works completion signed off by Deconult International, a subsidiary of Design Coordinates Incorporated. When graph chain syndicate kingpin Mitsukazu Nakarta took over all things construction for Okada Manila, he brought with him personally affiliated MEP company Modair Air, a subsidiary of Japanese company Tonit Corporation. Since Nakarta receives a slice from every Modair Air pie, he maximized the number of works awarded to them, even outside of their capabilities. When reports consistently arose of incomplete and faulty works from Modair Air, Nata fixed the problem by disabling the quality assurance process. Nakarta descoped DCI to witness basic testing and commissioning with no confirmed quality assurance. So DCI does not scrutinize the full completion of works of mod air ACOM instructed to release payments based on DCI's signature are not aware that DCI are not assuring the complete quality of work for mod air contracts. Corruption became so rampant under Mitsukazu Nakarta that even though DCI advertised their partnership with Melco and the City of Dreams project, they have removed all trace of Okarda Manila from their website. For several years, Nakarta's scam has been in effect, and Modair Air will, for example, be contracted to install an air conditioner into the Okarda Manila hotel. Modair Air demonstrates that the air conditioner turns on DCI and Okarda Manila facilities personnel sign as witnesses that it turned on. AOM sees the DCI signature and releases payment to Mod Air for the contract. Then because the works were substandard and incomplete, plumbing leaks and electrical faults arise and the graph chain syndicate issues new contracts to Modair Air to repair those faults. Okarda Manila for several years has been paying Modair Air multiple times for the same overpriced works. According to sources in supply chain and finance since Nakarta sabotaged the quality assurance process, the costs of Modair Air for Okarta Manila skyrocketed from around 200 million pesos annually to almost 1 billion pesos, making the Modair Air scam a goose that lays golden eggs for Mitsukazu Nakarta and his graph chain syndicate. But in spite of making millions from the mod air scam like a greedy spider, Ricardo Aguas is constantly hunting additional vendors for the syndicate's web of graft. For example, September 2024, we examine the contract bid of company A versus Company B, both with existing systems in Okarda, Manila. Disclaimer: Project Panagutin will only publish information and materials relative to graft or other criminal activities. We will not publish data or documentation that passes judgment on the efficacy of one company's product over another. Ricardo Aguas approached both companies to negotiate a collusion deal. Company A refused, company B accepted. From that point, Okarda Manila's graph chain syndicate wasted no time in manipulating the bid. They immediately prepared to fix the performance comparison test or bake off between the two companies. so consulted company B on their preferred comparison parameters to guarantee victory for company B. But they made a glaring mistake. Frederick Zulueta and Shellame Palaganis copied and pasted the bakeoff guidelines directly from company B's own documentation, being caught red-handed and exposing their vendor collusion. When the blatant vendor collusion was noticed and questioned, Mitsukazunu Nakarta was quick to silence any further inquiries using his authority with the added weight of allied board members. On the 23rd of September, the performance comparison demonstration took place between the two companies. But Ricardo Awas wouldn't release the results until almost 2 weeks later on October 3rd. The delay was due to the shock and dismay of the graph chain syndicate that in spite of their manipulations, company A still outperformed company B. With their collusion already revealed and no performance victory they can use, Ricardo Awas and his contract graft henchmen would have to find another way to justify awarding the contract to company B. A favorable cost comparison was their last hope. For all of September, the stakeholders were requesting a cost comparison between company A and company B, but the graph chain syndicate claimed they had not yet received any costings from either company. On the 3rd of October, the day the performance comparison results were finally released. Ricardo Aguas, Frederick Zulueta, and Shalami Palaganas presented a spreadsheet with the cost comparison to surveillance VP Mike Wait and another stakeholder, stating that company B was cheaper than company A. But the stakeholders already knew that Ricardo Agas had received the proposal of company A on the 31st of July and the proposal of company B on the 7th of September, and that he was previously lying when he said he had not received the proposals yet. A source within Okarta Manila has provided project panagutin with documentation of the whistleblower case submitted to internal audit that describes that meeting in detail. The stakeholder demanded to see the proposals from both companies to verify the accuracy. Ricardo Awas did not want to provide the actual proposals but the stakeholder insisted. The proposals revealed that Ricardo Awas, Frederick Zuluetta and Shellame Palaganas had completely fabricated the cost comparison. they were presenting. They were presenting the cost of company A in full but leaving out large portions of company B's costs to make it look cheaper. When the stakeholder questioned Ricardo Awas for presenting a faked cost comparison, he merely offered that it was incomplete and they're still working on it. The stakeholder reminded Ricardo Awas of his opening statement that company B was cheaper and advised him against vendor collusion, ending the meeting. The graph chain syndicate had withheld presenting the proposals as company B's proposal was inflated to almost double the total cost per unit of company A to account for the negotiated payments to the syndicate. Company B had a lower performance rating than company A at almost double the cost. Yet Ricardo Awas was desperate to have them win the contract. After the fake cost comparison meeting was over, where one stakeholder saw corruption to be reported, surveillance VP Mike Wade saw an opportunity to recruit a like-minded ally and bring back Empire Automation for a fresh new deal. The Okarda Manila board of directors have always been aware of every disturbing, deplorable, wretched example of corruption and criminal activities committed within the long halls of Okarda Manila. The board was informed of the surveillance voyurism report falsification and cover up by surveillance VP Mike Weight. The board was informed of the vendor collusion and graft of Mike Wait with Empire Automation. The board was informed of Mitsukazu Nakata's Modair rework scam, falsely increasing operating costs by millions of US dollars every year. The board was informed of the contract manipulation by the Mitsukazu Nakarta and Ricardo Awas Graph chain syndicate. The board was informed of the Batanga's laundry fuel theft, ghost procurement of grocery goods, vendor kickbacks, and a multitude of other examples of graft scams and illegal activities by many whistleblowers over the past several years. And that large number of whistleblowers have more in common with each other than honesty and integrity. They were all professionally assassinated by the Okarda Manila labor force death squad for posing a threat to the corrupt profiteering of the graph chain syndicate. Not just whistleblowers, but many Okarda Manila employees that innocently raised concerns or asked questions that made the graph chain syndicate feel threatened had human resources, internal audit, and the so-called independent disciplinary unit weaponized against them. At the instruction of Mitsukazu Nakata, human resources senior vice president attorney Jerome Sarte and director Fenolin Reyes draft as many false accusations against the target whistleblower as they can using vague, misleading and impossible to accurately determine violations of the code of conduct. Violations as trivial as being rude in a meeting. Attorney Jerome and Fenoline will then deploy the fake IDU to use extensive lawyer skills to confuse, intimidate, and emotionally subdue the innocent employee who is not a lawyer, often can't afford one, and doesn't have the tools to defend themselves. Shortly after the battering by the fake IDU, the whistleblower employee is called to another meeting with Labor Force death squad members, Attorney Jerome and Fenolin, where they advise them that the decision of the IDU is termination, but they refuse to show the employee the official IDU report. Attorney Jerome will then offer to pay two-month separation if the whistleblower employee will resign and sign a non-disclosure agreement to never discuss publicly or privately any of the criminal activities they witnessed within Okarta Manila. The Okarta Manila Labor Force death squad know well that the majority of their Filipino employees live paycheck to paycheck and simply can't afford to fight the fabricated accusations. So the success rate of the whistleblower persecution arm of the graft chain syndicate is 100% using intimidation, bullying and the ignorance and apathy of a corrupt board of directors to continue their enormous graft uninterrupted. Why are the Okada Manila Graph chain syndicate and their paid executive allies so audacious with their corruption? The answer lies in their political affiliations. Sources in surveillance have informed Project Panagutin that in September 2022, after the Graph Chain Syndicate Board used affiliated corrupt Philippine government officials to hijack Okarda Manila from original founder Kazuo Okada, Mike Weight bragged to senior surveillance staff about his contribution to the invasion effort. Mike Weight boasted that he was a key contributor along with some very powerful people during strategy meetings conducted in the months preceding September 2022. And very soon the board won't have to worry about Kazuo Okarda ever again. One of the very powerful people Mike Wait mentioned was controversial junkit boss and money mechanic Kim Wong, who Mike claims is a silent partner and investor in Okarda, Manila. Sources in the executive offices have confirmed that Mike Weight's claims are true, and Kim Wong continues to use Okarda Manila as a high-end money wash. Affiliates of Kim Wong will make very large deposits and withdrawals with minimal or no gaming activity, and Okarda Manila will not submit suspicious transaction reports of those transactions to the Philippines Anti-money Laundering Council. Former House Speaker Martin Ramaldez is another partner of Okarda Manila. Although not so secretly, after it was revealed in US court, he received a substantial cash payment facilitated by board members Michelle Lazero and James Lorenzana to secure his assistance in stealing the property from its founder and original chairman Kazuo Okada. Romeo Waldez would use the newly forged relationship with Okarda Manila to his advantage, laundering stolen government funds as sources in the executive offices have overheard board member James Lauren telling another Okarta executive that the speaker has people coming to make deposits while handing the executive a folded piece of paper. So it comes as no surprise that many of the prominent figures associated with the notorious flood contract scandal have frequented Okarda Manila. Some of which were revealed by legendary anti-corruption advocate Senator Ping Laxon. The initial role of Martin Rwaldez was to facilitate the cooperation of PACG chair Alenko as well as members of the Supreme Court to rule in favor of his TRLEI financiers over founder Kazuo Okada. One Supreme Court official that was recruited to manipulate a favorable ruling in the Kazuo Okada versus TRLEI case was first division associate justice Joseph Lopez. Associate Justice Joseph Lopez was assigned to the first division of the Supreme Court in 2021. Two years later, the first division would rule in the favor of trle ei ripping Okarda Manila from the loving hands of its founder and true manager and condemning it to the will of the criminals that currently bleed it dry. Associate Justice Joseph Lopez frequents the VIP Bakarat tables of multiple Manila casinos, but Project Panagutin has obtained irrefutable evidence confirming that Lopez is currently in debt to resorts world manila just under 1 billion pesos. Such an enormous debt would influence anyone to sell their integrity to the casinos. with political affiliations powerful enough to manipulate both Pacore and the Supreme Court. It is revealed why Mitsukazu Nakata is registered as a VIP with the Bureau of Immigration, why the graph chain syndicate operates with impunity, and why parent company Universal Entertainment has abandoned their duty to shareholders by allowing millions upon millions of US dollars to be siphoned from profits every year. Okarda Manila is a beautiful iconic resort, but since its management was pirated and original founder Kazuo Okada was expelled based on fabricated charges and nefarious political big money deals, Okada Manila has become an egregious den of corruption. The personal piggy bank and money wash for rich powerful evil men. There is no accountability for surveillance voyer predators. There is no accountability for the persecution of whistleblowers. There is no accountability for the theft of millions. There is no accountability for the money laundering of stolen government funds. But Okarda Manila isn't the only integrated resort with secrets. [Music] Project Panagutin only publishes verified reporting. Every claim we present is checked against authenticated internal documentation. email header data, transaction records, and CCTV footage. We do not run uncorroborated allegations. If you have information or evidence to share, please contact us via the displayed email address.