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00:00The passport of former Bamban Tarlac Mayor Alice Guo has been canceled following rumors that she has already left the Philippines.
00:07Authorities are also investigating who could possibly help the former mayor leave the country.
00:13Sandra Aguinaldo reported.
00:18After promising the Senate that there is information that the country's former mayor has left the country,
00:23Dismissed Bamban Mayor Alice Guo,
00:25Executive Secretary Lucas Bersamin of the DFA
00:29ordered the cancellation of Guo's passport,
00:31his siblings,
00:33Wesley and Sheila,
00:35and the body of the late South 99 Pogo,
00:38in Porac,
00:39Cassandra Ong.
00:40The passport of a fugitive under the New Philippine Passport Act can be canceled by the court.
00:47Guo has an arrest warrant in the Senate
00:49and is facing a criminal complaint
00:51due to qualified human trafficking.
00:53But the question now is,
00:55where is Guo really?
00:57His lawyer held his client's statement that he is still in the Philippines.
01:03This is also the case of Guo's confrontation with the notary public,
01:07Attorney Elmer Galicia,
01:09for his counter affidavit.
01:11Attorney Galicia explained to the Department of Justice,
01:14but refused to give a consent to the media.
01:17Prosecutors said,
01:19Galicia argued that he personally confronted Guo
01:23when he notarized his counter affidavit.
01:26A lawyer arranged for him to be notarized.
01:30On August 14, 2024,
01:34at around 7 o'clock p.m.,
01:36when he arrived at the office,
01:38there was a land cruiser
01:41on board of Ms. Alice Guo.
01:44Ms. Alice Guo was talking to him
01:46at the bottom of his office.
01:48She saw him.
01:50Ms. Alice Guo presented a driver's license to him.
01:56But if the Bureau of Immigration obtained information
02:00on that occasion,
02:02Guo is not in the Philippines.
02:04Guo has no record of leaving the country,
02:06but the Malaysian Immigration has a record
02:09of Guo's arrival in Kuala Lumpur on July 18.
02:13He also has a record of his arrival in Singapore on July 21.
02:17And on August 18,
02:19he also has a record of his arrival in Batam, Indonesia.
02:22The Presidential Anti-Organized Crime Commission
02:25of Ms. Alice Guo,
02:28the siblings of Ms. Sheila and Ms. Wesley,
02:31and Ms. Cassandra Ong
02:33went through the immigration area in Singapore.
02:36Before arriving in Singapore,
02:38they went through Indonesia and Malaysia
02:41based on the information they obtained.
02:43From the reports we received from our counterparts in other countries,
02:48it is clear that Ms. Alice Guo has already left the country.
02:52Definitely, they will not get an airplane from the Philippines
02:56because they will be fired.
02:57What can happen is,
02:59they can hire a chartered plane from outside our country,
03:02and if there is an incident here,
03:04they will be the ones to be backloaded.
03:06So there is no record.
03:08According to the Immigration's intel,
03:10Ms. Guo has a flight back to the Philippines.
03:12Even though Ms. Guo used a possible backdoor or illegal route
03:16to get out of the country,
03:18Immigration is still investigating
03:20if it was their own people who fired her.
03:23The DOJ also investigated in the MBI and Immigration
03:26the departure of Ms. Guo.
03:28According to Justice Secretary Jesus Crispin Rimulya of the BIA,
03:32if there is a person involved in Ms. Guo's escape,
03:35they will come forward and tell the truth.
03:38If it is not personal, they will say that there is an answer.
03:41They will also know if Ms. Guo's countrymen and lawyers
03:44have a role in her escape from the country.
03:47The PNP has already asked foreign counterparts
03:50to investigate Ms. Guo.
03:52As for the NBI,
03:53they will be careful in confirming if her dismissal as mayor
03:57was monitored when she left the country.
03:59They are also verifying the documents that came out from Malaysia,
04:03especially the close-up image of the person who entered their country.
04:08Malaysia is a very high-tech country.
04:11There cannot be no image.
04:13If you look at the counter,
04:15you can see your face,
04:17your two fingerprints,
04:19and two index fingers.
04:21So we are still checking the veracity of the report.
04:25If they have a fingerprint that they entered Malaysia,
04:29entered Indonesia,
04:31give us the fingerprint,
04:33and we will check if it is her.
04:35Komelek is still investigating
04:37the possible case of misrepresentation against Ms. Guo.
04:40She is still waiting for the answer
04:42to the statement that was made against her last week.
04:46The Senate's investigations on Ms. Guo continue.
04:49They will investigate how Ms. Guo left the country.
04:54Sandra Aguinaldo reports for GMA Integrated News.
05:00In a statement,
05:01President Bongbong Marcos claimed that
05:03Ms. Guo will be punished if she left the Philippines.
05:06He said that heads will roll or she will be punished.
05:09After Ms. Guo left the country,
05:11the corruption that weakens the justice system
05:14and breaks the trust of the public was exposed.
05:17An in-depth investigation is underway
05:19to find out who helped the former mayor to leave
05:24and they will be held accountable.
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