Fictitious name? The curious case of ‘Ang Hai Peng,’ Sara Duterte’s biz partner

Who is behind the Chinese name that had appeared — but later disappeared — in the corporate records of Vice President Sara Duterte’s company? Ask former senator Antonio Trillanes IV, and he will tell you it’s a person who doesn’t exist. During his press conference on Friday, October 2, Trillanes put the spotlight on Ang Hai Peng, which Trillanes said appeared in the records of Timesquare Bee Foods, a company incorporated by Duterte, as per her assets list over the years. Trillanes said the company’s corporate documents showed that Ang owned 60% of the company from 2013 to 2013. The company was later renamed Gencorp. Gencorp’s records with the Securities and Exchange Commission didn’t bear Ang’s name beginning 2022.

The top shareholder has become the JTC Group of Companies, owned by Jaime T. Cruz. Cruz is a business partner of the Dutertes. His name appears in numerous corporate documents co-owned by the Vice President, her husband Mans Carpio, and her siblings Paolo and Sebastian Duterte. Central to Trillanes’ allegation is that Peng does not have government records. “They have no birth certificate, they have no passport, their TIN is fake, and, incidentally, their birthday is the same as Jaime T. Cruz’s,” Trillanes claimed. “They are one person. I am one hundred percent person that [Ang Hai Peng] is nonexistent,” he added. Play Video We have emailed JTC Group of Companies’ email address for Cruz’s side of the story. We will update this story once we receive a…