Bank accounts at iba pang ari-arian ni suspended Mayor Guo, pinapa-freeze ng Court of Appeals;
Guo, napag-alamang may 36 bank accounts
Guo, napag-alamang may 36 bank accounts
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00:00The Court of Appeals has ordered the bank accounts and other assets of suspended Mayor Alice Guo to be freezed.
00:07According to the AMLC, as per the law, several personalities have been involved in the illegal smuggling in Bamban, Tarlac.
00:16Daniel Manalasta is in the center of the news.
00:22The Court of Appeals has ordered the Anti-Money Laundering Council to freeze the bank accounts
00:27and other assets of suspended Bamban Mayor Alice Guo and other individuals.
00:33According to the AMLC, they were able to get a freeze order in the CA and it was a huge success
00:38in the fight against human trafficking, money laundering, and illegal smuggling.
00:43Along with the individuals who were freezed, Guo's bank accounts
00:47and other individuals who were suspected of being involved in illegal activities were also freezed.
00:52The AMLC document states that Senator Sherwin Gatchalian's office distributed 36 bank accounts of Mayor Guo.
01:00He also has a helicopter and vehicles.
01:03Aside from Guo, the freeze order includes a total of 90 bank accounts.
01:08According to Senator Gatchalian, the amount of money is huge.
01:12In the span of 3 years, billions were transferred to Alice Guo's accounts.
01:21But if you look at their corporations, that's why we're bringing it up during the hearing of corporations,
01:27if we look at their corporations, both the income statements and the statement of cash flow, there are no billions,
01:34only hundreds of thousands.
01:36That's why we're wondering how the Bambang Pogo Hub, which is worth P6 billion,
01:43but it's not mentioned in any of their financial statements.
01:47According to Gatchalian, money is being transferred to Guo from various places
01:52and it's being issued to various individuals and corporations.
01:55And the freeze of Guo's bank accounts means that Guo cannot justify where his money came from.
02:03The senator is wondering when he looks at his income statement,
02:06his corporations are in loss.
02:09And if Guo's assets are not freezed,
02:12the probability of money laundering is high.
02:17That's why the assets were immediately freezed.
02:18Because if you don't freeze the money, it will be easy to transfer.
02:24It can disappear and it's gone. It won't continue.
02:27Gatchalian is not yet able to detail the whole report on where the money came from.
02:31But he says it's a huge amount.
02:33A large portion came from China and entered here
02:40and it went out to other individuals and corporations here in the Philippines.
02:45All of this should be justified. There's no justification.
02:49It's worth noting why it only went out recently.
02:55Because of this, the senator suspects that the banks are also in short of money.
02:59He says there's a possibility that it happened and it was not reported immediately to AMLOC.
03:04If the branch got a large amount of money and the depositor cannot justify it,
03:08it will be reported immediately.
03:10Why was there no report in 2019?
03:12It was only reported in 2024.
03:14PTV News is still trying to catch Mayor Guo's panic.
03:19But they still have no clue.
03:22Daniel Manalastas for Pambansang TV in Bagong, Philippines.