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00:00Welcome back to my country, Cassandra Ong and Sheila Guo from Indonesia.
00:07We will continue to look for Alice Guo.
00:09We have with us the Bureau of Immigration Spokesperson, Dana Sandoval.
00:12Good morning to all of you, ma'am. This is Maryse, and we are live on Unang Balita.
00:16Good morning. Good morning, Maryse.
00:18Let's start with the information about the former mayor.
00:22Where is Alice Guo now? Is she still in Indonesia? Do we have any proof?
00:27Our counterparts have confirmed that she is still in Indonesia.
00:33There have been no attempts to transfer Alice Guo to another country.
00:40All right.
00:41Based on the documents, Guo arrived in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia from Denpasar in Bali, Indonesia.
00:46Do you have any information?
00:47Maybe she went to other countries from the Philippines before arriving in Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore?
00:54Actually, it has not been confirmed if she went to Denpasar before arriving in Malaysia.
01:00Based on what we have seen in the passports,
01:02Sheila, who arrived here, passed through Sabah, Malaysia before going to Kuala Lumpur, the Guo family.
01:15From there, they went to Singapore, and then on August 18, they transferred to Indonesia via Batam Island.
01:25They ferried her to Indonesia.
01:28Ma'am, can we see Guo returning to her country any day from now?
01:34Senator Sherwin Gatchalian is saying that anytime soon, she will be able to return.
01:40But when she was here in the Philippines, it was hard for the authorities to control her.
01:44Especially now that she is in another country.
01:47We're very hopeful about that.
01:49We are thankful to Indonesian Immigration for their prompt response in the letter of our commissioner to them,
01:58informing these people.
02:02They immediately pre-marked the whereabouts of Mayor Alice Guo and her family.
02:10That's why we were able to successfully bring back Cassandra Leong and Sheila Leal-Guo.
02:15We're hoping that in the next few days, there will be more developments on the case of those who were left there.
02:21Many are asking, ma'am, why was the Immigration-Synagogo involved?
02:25Is that how the BIA will investigate?
02:27Based on the information we have gathered from the documents they are showing,
02:34they did not pass through the formal airport or seaport of this group.
02:40The indication that we are seeing is that they passed through Sabah, Malaysia, possibly through illegal means.
02:47That's why they did not pass through the process of immigration.
02:50But the backtracking of their flights or their trips, if this is a bank,
02:56we are still doing that to find out exactly what route they passed through so that we can find out who are liable for their illegal departure.
03:08What Paok is saying is that it is possible for them to use a chartered plane from another country,
03:13and they are the backload passengers.
03:15Is it true that when you are a backload passenger, you don't need to manifest
03:18and you don't need to go back to the country where you came from?
03:26All airplanes require a manifest.
03:30All people who boarded that plane, even the crew, the pilots, are placed in a manifest.
03:37So if they left the country and they did not depart legally,
03:44and they left the country, then that's considered illegal and falsification of the documents.
03:49How soon are we expecting the results of the investigation, ma'am?
03:52Immediately, we are expecting the results to be released next week.
03:59But we need more information about this.
04:01And there, we will know the tracking, when, where and how they left the Philippines, right?
04:08That's right.
04:10What we have is initial information that they went to Sabah, Malaysia.
04:15We need to backtrack even more to see who are involved in the departure of these people.
04:23Because what the people are saying, for example, the backchannel in Sabah, Malaysia,
04:28there are also many people who can be seen there at the seaports.
04:31There are also many people who can be seen there at the seaports.
04:38There's also the possibility of a private aircraft.
04:43That's why, at this point, we will not release our deeper information until it's confirmed.
04:51Once confirmed, we will face multiple cases of those who were complicit in the departure of these people.
04:58All right. The brother of former Bamban Mayor Alice Guo, Wesley Guo,
05:03is he still in Indonesia now? Or if he's not anymore, where did he go?
05:09With Wesley Guo, the last known information is that he's in Indonesia.
05:14We haven't added our new information as to his whereabouts, if he moved to another country.
05:20We are waiting for the confirmation of our Indonesian counterparts if there are any updates on his trip.
05:26We are just different in luck, ma'am.
05:30I would also like to ask if Pastor Apolo Kibuloy is still in the Philippines,
05:34which the government has been looking for for a long time.
05:36So far, according to our records, there have been no recent travels of Pastor Apolo Kibuloy out of the country.
05:42All right. Thank you very much, Donna Sandoval, spokesperson of the Bureau of Immigration for your time and the information you gave us.
05:49Thank you and good morning.
05:51Good morning.