Balitanghali: (Part 3) August 21, 2024

GMA Integrated News

-Passport nina Alice Guo, 2 niyang kapatid at ni Cassandra Li Ong, pinakakansela sa DFA/Abogado ni Guo, sinabing nasa Pilipinas pa rin ang kanyang kliyente/Notary Public Atty. Galicia, nakaharap daw si Guo para sa counter-affidavit sa DOJ/Bureau of Immigration: Guo, dumating sa Indonesia noong August 18/Babala ng DOJ kung sakaling may tauhan ng B.I. na tumulong kay Guo: "Heads will roll"/Mga dokumento sa Malaysia na nagsasabing pumunta roon si Guo, under verification ng NBI/ Kontra-salaysay ni Guo sa subpoena, hinihintay ng COMELEC; pagdinig ng Senado tungkol sa mga POGO, tuloy pa rin   -Interview: Sen. Risa Hontiveros    Balitanghali is the daily noontime newscast of GTV anchored by Raffy Tima and Connie Sison. It airs Mondays to Fridays at 10:00 AM (PHL Time). For more videos from Balitanghali, visit http://www.gmanews.tv/balitanghali.  #GMAIntegratedNews #KapusoStream  Breaking news and stories from the Philippines and abroad: GMA Integrated News Portal: http://www.gmanews.tv Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/gmanews TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@gmanews Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/gmanews Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/gmanews  GMA Network Kapuso programs on GMA Pinoy TV: https://gmapinoytv.com/subscribe

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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 landcruiser,

01:41on board is Ms. Alice Guo.

01:44Ms. Alice Guo talked 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 information obtained by the Bureau of Immigration is false,

02:01Guo is not in the Philippines.

02:04Guo has no record of leaving the country,

02:07but the Malaysian Immigration has a record

02:10of 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,

02:27led by Ms. Alice Guo,

02:29Ms. Sheila and Ms. Wesley,

02:31and Ms. Cassandra Ong,

02:33also took pictures when they went to the immigration area in Singapore.

02:36Before arriving in Singapore,

02:38they went to Indonesia and Malaysia

02:41based on the information they obtained.

02:43From the reports we received from our counterparts abroad,

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 evacuated.

02:57What can happen is,

02:59they can hire a chartered plane from outside our country,

03:02and if something happens 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 to get out of the country,

03:18Immigration is still investigating

03:20if they were the ones to send her out.

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 this person is involved in Ms. Guo's escape,

03:35they will come forward and tell the truth.

03:38If it's not personal, they will say that there is an answer.

03:41They will also know if Ms. Guo's countrymen and lawyers have a role in her escape.

03:47The PNP has already informed the foreign counterparts

03:50so that Ms. Guo will be informed.

03:52As for the NBI,

03:53they will be careful in confirming if the dismissal of her mayor

03:57is the one that monitored her leaving the country.

03:59They are also verifying the documents that came out from Malaysia,

04:03especially the close-up image of her entering their country.

04:08Malaysia is a very high-tech country.

04:11There can't be no image.

04:13If you look at the counter,

04:15you can already see your face,

04:17your two fingerprints,

04:19two 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 and we will check if it's her.

04:34The Comelec is still investigating the possible case of misrepresentation against Ms. Guo.

04:40They are still waiting for her answer

04:42on the statement that was made against her last week.

04:46The Senate hearings on Ms. Guo are still ongoing.

04:49They will investigate how Ms. Guo left the country.

04:54Sandra Aguinaldo reporting for GMA Integrated News.

05:00In a statement, President Bongbong Marcos warned that

05:03Ms. Guo will be punished if she left the Philippines.

05:06He said, 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.

05:17There is a deep investigation to find out

05:20who helped the former mayor to leave

05:24and they will be punished by the law.

05:29We will discuss the recent departure of Ms. Guo

05:32and other big issues.

05:34We will talk to Senator Liza Onteveros.

05:36Good morning and welcome to Balitang Hali, Senator.

05:39This is Connie with Rafi.

05:41Good morning to you, Connie and Rafi.

05:43Good morning.

05:44And to our viewers, good morning.

05:46Ms. Guo's camp is arguing that she is here in the Philippines.

05:50Attorney Stephen David challenged the Bureau of Immigration

05:53to prove that Ms. Guo is abroad.

05:55What can you say about this?

05:57They are the ones who are strongly challenged by the Bureau of Immigration.

06:01Well, we saw that the DI and other law enforcement agencies

06:07are saying that they are receiving information

06:12from their counterparts in other countries.

06:15And this is no different, Rafi and Connie,

06:19from our paper trail or information trail here in my office.

06:25For me, this all started when I wrote to the NBI

06:30to update their manhunt for Ms. Guo Huaping.

06:34And I received unconfirmed information from the NBI

06:39that Ms. Guo Huaping left the Philippines on July 18.

06:45So we received that unconfirmed information from the NBI

06:50and we corroborated it to various sources from other countries

06:55such as Asia, Singapore, and China.

06:59And of course, this was confirmed by our Bureau of Immigration.

07:04Senator, you mentioned the NBI.

07:08The NBI is careful in confirming if Ms. Guo really left the country

07:12because there is no record of her immigration encounters.

07:17What can you say about this?

07:20That's why I said that this is unconfirmed information

07:23that I received from the NBI.

07:26But it was also a result of me writing to them

07:29to ask for an update on their manhunt.

07:33And what you said is correct.

07:35And this is also related to my raising the question of privilege on Monday.

07:40I noticed that in the screenshot of the video

07:45or it should have been a video of Ms. Guo Huaping entering Malaysia,

07:49her image was not there.

07:51That's why I thought and told my colleagues on the floor

07:55if that was a proof that she was used to

08:00or she had someone who helped her to avoid the place where her image would be caught.

08:06So this is one of the many things that we will continue to know

08:09even here in the Senate Committee on Women.

08:11In our interview yesterday, Senator Stephen David,

08:14Ms. Guo ruled out facing the Senate,

08:17especially since she is no longer an effective resource person

08:19due to the many cases filed against her by the former mayor.

08:22What is your reaction to this?

08:23The Senate Committee on Women is the only one who can weigh

08:28if she is an effective or ineffective resource person.

08:31And obviously, as a chair, I am giving this.

08:34We are still insisting that she should go under the Senate Warrant of Arrest

08:40issued by the Senate President on the request of this representation,

08:45the chair of the Senate Committee on Women,

08:47because she should still face our committee

08:51and once and for all answer our final questions to her properly.

08:56That's why I expect that our various executive agencies will take action.

09:03Even here, in my question of privilege,

09:05it was revealed that she left the Philippines

09:09so that her presence here in the Senate can have an effect.

09:14Senator, there are really many problems arising in our investigation in Pogo.

09:19So what will be our direction here in the investigation with regard to Pogo?

09:23At the same time, here to Dismiss Mayor Alice Guo,

09:27who is currently being asked to cancel her passport.

09:31Well, and I really welcome the order from the Office of the Executive Secretary of the DFA

09:38to cancel the Philippine passport of a non-Filipino citizen,

09:44Guo Huaping, so that her abuse and use will stop

09:49so that she can escape to our country and enter other countries.

09:54It is true that there are many problems arising in Pogo,

09:58many crimes.

09:59Our four years of investigation in the Senate Committee on Women against the Pogos

10:05but it also resulted in a great success,

10:08the President's ban in their zone in Pogo

10:13to wind down all of that until December 31

10:17and to find alternative jobs and find a life or just transition

10:22for the Filipino employees or those who are looking for a life in Pogo and its surroundings.

10:29Our next step here in the Senate Committee on Women

10:33are a few more hearings, I estimate two or three,

10:38to close this and to release our thick Committee Report of Findings and Recommendations

10:45including the last questions that we will ask and the results that will be submitted to the Committee Report

10:51are here with a few more resource persons that have not yet been answered.

10:56First of all, Guo Huaping

10:58and there are also the aforementioned lawyers of the last chapter so far of the saga of Guo Huaping.

11:07And who knows, maybe we will be able to complete or add

11:12the Blue Ribbon Senate Committee's investigation in Formally

11:18because our investigation in Pogo shows the cast of characters.

11:23Senator, this is a big blow to our system.

11:28This is the departure of Dismissed Bambantarlak Mayor, Alice Guo

11:34and it is being said here that for this to happen,

11:38we are seeing a new kind of aid of legislation that can be strengthened

11:44so that we will not be able to escape, to be laughed at,

11:47that is, other countries will say that it is too fast to leave.

11:51Is it because they are saying that the warrant of arrest from the Senate is weak

11:56as compared to a court order, for example, a hold departure order?

12:00Why was that kind of attention not paid to him so that he will not be able to leave?

12:07Why did we come to this?

12:09The warrant of arrest from the Senate is not a weak instrument.

12:14This is solidly within our mandate and according to our rules.

12:19That is why I have full confidence when we were able to issue the warrant of arrest of Guo Huaping

12:25that this will be enforced.

12:27In fact, the Bureau of Immigration promised us by Senate President Pro Tempo

12:33in a hearing that they will not allow Guo Huaping to leave the Philippines.

12:41Definitely, it will be mentioned in our recommendations

12:44on how to enforce the various laws and coordination

12:50between our various law enforcement agencies.

12:54As a result of this investigation by the Senate,

12:56our executive agencies also carried out a parallel investigation and corrective action.

13:02Senator?

13:03Yes, Raffy?

13:04We will also take a short break.

13:06What do you see as the source of tension between you and Vice President Sara Duterte

13:10in the hearing yesterday regarding the 2025 budget of the OVP?

13:15Oh my, VP Sara is the one who can answer that.

13:18She knows that the Congress passes the budget of the entire government every year

13:24including her office.

13:26That's why she should not only prepare her information

13:30but also her attitude and behavior

13:33because every peso and cent that we pass in the budget

13:38is money from the government and moreover, from the citizens.

13:42So, it's only right to ask for a duplication of programs

13:47and especially the possible improper request for budget

13:51from a private authored book that uses the money from the citizens and the government.

13:59It wasn't about her.

14:01Okay. Thank you very much for your time in Binagay sa Balitang Halik.

14:05Thank you, Senator.

14:06Thank you. You're welcome.

14:08We will try to get a new statement from Ms. Mamantanlac Mayor Alice Guo

14:14and Vice President Sara Duterte.

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14:37Transcription by ESO. Translation by —

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