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00:00It is possible that Dismissed Mayor Alice Guo, who is in custody of the police in Indonesia, will return to the Philippines today.
00:07According to the spokesperson of the Presidential Anti-Organized Crime Commission, Winston Casio.
00:11Before Guo returns to the Philippines, he will still go through the Indonesian immigration and other processes there.
00:17According to Casio, if there will be no legal action in the process, it is expected that Guo will return to the country.
00:25Interior Secretary Benno Abalos and PNP Chief Police General Rommel Marbil arrived in Indonesia at 5.30 a.m.
00:32to investigate the return of Guo.
00:35Some officials from the Bureau of Immigration and National Bureau of Investigation are also present.
00:40Justice Secretary Jesus Cristine Remulia is already expecting the arrest of Alice Guo
00:46because it is difficult for her to hide for the former mayor, especially since there are complaints against her.
00:52Remulia also added that it is more difficult for Guo to return home than her siblings Sheila and Cassandra Leong.
01:01Salima Refran reported.
01:07The authorities in this apartment in Tanggirang City, Indonesia, transferred and transferred Dismissed Mayor Alice Guo.
01:17From her blonde hair, Guo's hairstyle is now shorter.
01:22In order to hide her identity, the Indonesian police saw that her hair was cut to conceal her identity.
01:39More than a week ago, PNP, Immigration, NBI, and Indonesian authorities backtracked in Jakarta and nearby areas.
01:48For example, CCTV caught Guo riding in a riding app.
01:53On August 20, Guo was also seen arriving at an airport in Indonesia.
01:59In the video from our source, you can see that he is accompanied by a man who is known by the source as Duan Renwu,
02:07the former Chinese big boss of Lucky South 99 Pugo in Porak, Pampanga.
02:13The basis of the arrest of Mayor Alice Guo in Indonesia was the information given by the Philippine Bureau of Immigration
02:21that we have a mission order issued against her because we know that she is facing a deportation case here in the Philippines
02:29for being an undesirable alien as well as for misrepresentation.
02:35We were also given information about her other cases.
02:41There was a blue notice inside the Interpol.
02:46We know that Alice Guo's discarded everything in her life.
02:54First of all, her passport. We have a problem with that.
03:00It's hard to hide. That's the problem. Your world will shrink if you are a fugitive from justice.
03:07There are complaints filed against Guo by the Department of Justice, but nothing has been filed in court.
03:14These include qualified human trafficking, tax evasion, and violation of the Anti-Money Laundering Act.
03:21Last July, Alice Guo and her siblings were dismissed from the country.
03:27On August 22, Alice's sister Sheila and her business partner Cassandra Ong were allowed to return to the country after being arrested in Batam, Indonesia.
03:38But unlike them, Alice Guo's situation was different.
03:44It will depend on the certain elements and certain situations emanating from Indonesia and the Indonesian authorities.
03:53We will discuss this. The DFA will be talking to them also.
03:58Remulia did not comment on these issues.
04:02But it was reported on several Indonesian news websites that in exchange for Guo's release, Indonesia asked them to turn over
04:10the Australian Gregor Johan Haas, one of the most wanted drug suspects in Indonesia
04:17and said to be a member of the Sinaloa Drug Cartel of Mexico.
04:22Haas was arrested in Bogo, Cebu on May.
04:25Under the visa of the Red Notice of Interpol, he was charged in Indonesia with drug smuggling,
04:32a crime with a death penalty.
04:35Meanwhile, the team of NBI agents and senior prosecutors of DOJ will send a message to remind them to send Guo home.
04:44We will go straight to the B.I., Bureau of Immigration, for immigration violations,
04:52and then we will turn over to them.
04:55We will take custody of him, we will process him, and then we will hand him over to the Senate.
05:02Remember also that the Senate has a warrant against him.
05:08Sanima Refrain, reporting for GMA Integrated News.
05:13The lawyers of the former Bambang Tarlac Mayor, Alice Guo, also gave a statement that their client remains innocent
05:20until the allegations against her are proven.
05:23Guo's legal team called on the public to avoid making false comments and baseless accusations.
05:30They will answer all the issues regarding Guo in the right forum and courts.
05:36According to the first report of Attorney Stephen David, one of Guo's lawyers,
05:40they last spoke with the former mayor on August 22.
05:44He stated that he did not know that Guo left the Philippines and that his client only mentioned the allegations.
05:51According to Attorney David, it is best for Guo to return to the Philippines so that he can answer the issues he is facing.
05:59He will be able to face his case properly because if he changes, he will be defaulted and his side will not be heard.
06:11After facing the camera, Cassandra Ong repaid the bank secrecy waiver she signed to open her bank accounts.
06:18Ong also admitted that she applied for a license for Pogo in Porac, Pampanga.
06:23Here is my report.
06:28Cassandra Ong repeatedly said during the first hearing of the camera
06:31that they are just renting houses to Chinese businessmen.
06:35But she was admitted by congressmen.
06:37We are preventing that congressman corrupt will again make a motion for contempt
06:45and consign you to Mandaluyong Correctional Institution.
06:51Now you answer me now, what kind of license did you get, trying to get from Pagcor?
06:58Mr. Chair, license to operate Pagcor.
07:02What? To operate Pagcor? Pagcor cannot operate.
07:07You applied for a license from Pagcor to operate what?
07:16To operate Pogo.
07:18That's it.
07:19First, Ong said that she did not know about the Pogo operation in Porac, Pampanga.
07:23She was just an authorized representative of Locky South 99.
07:26In the fourth hearing of the camera about the Pogo,
07:30Ong was also asked where the funds they used came from
07:33to build more than four houses in Porac, Pampanga.
07:36Ong's answer was that it was from her mother.
07:39But she could not answer where the money came from from her partners.
07:43Did your partners' business not come from drugs?
07:49I am sure it did not.
07:51Ong also returned the previous commitment
07:53to sign a bank secrecy waiver to open her bank accounts.
07:57In the beginning, she agreed to execute a bank waiver.
08:02But she actually returned it
08:04because it will serve as evidence against her
08:08in the case of money laundering committed by PAOC and AMLOC.
08:13At one point, Ong said again that if she agrees to be a witness,
08:18she is just a dummy of the Pogo operators.
08:21She also said that she did not finish her studies,
08:24but she has yet to make a decision.
08:26You're just a dummy here.
08:28There are people behind this that you can't mention for some reason.
08:33For some reason, you can't mention because they might be close to you,
08:39or they might be your relatives, or they might be your boyfriends,
08:44or they might be the people you're trying to hide from us.
08:50Right?
08:53What can you say?
08:58For all the questions, I'm not a dummy.
09:02After a few questions, Ong refused to answer.
09:05She also asked for permission to go to the back, but she did not return.
09:09She later said that her sugar level dropped.
09:12According to the doctor of the camera, the machine cannot read her sugar level,
09:16indicating how low it is.
09:18Because of this, the Quadcom ordered her to be rushed to the hospital
09:22so that they can continue their questioning in the next hearing.
09:26There is also an emotion in the hearing that Alice Guo was invited to the Quadcom hearing
09:30when she arrived in the country.
09:32Raffy Tima reporting for GMA Integrated News.
09:36After returning to the Philippines, Alice Guo will be brought to the Senate Detention Facility
09:40where she will be accompanied by Sheila Guo.
09:43Again, President Bongbong Marcos insisted that everyone will be responsible for the questioning
09:49outside the country of the former mayor.
09:51Breaking news from Chino Gaston.
09:57If anyone helped to leave the country,
10:00Dismissed Bamban Mayor Alice Guo will be held accountable according to President Bongbong Marcos
10:04when asked who will be hit.
10:07You'll find out soon enough.
10:09We will not only hit them, we will also sue them
10:13because what they did is against the law
10:17and against all of the interests of the Philippine judicial system.
10:22Alice Guo was the last person released by the public on May 22
10:26after the Senate heard about the illegal activities in the Pogos.
10:29After almost three months, on August 19,
10:32information broke that Guo had already left the country in July
10:36and arrived in Malaysia, Indonesia, and Singapore.
10:39One day after that, on August 20, Guo arrived at the airport in Indonesia.
10:44On that same day, Alice's brother, Sheila,
10:47and Cassandra Ong, a member of Lucky South 99, were detained in Batam, Indonesia.
10:54On camera, Ong was detained because of a contempt order against him.
10:57He was charged with non-compliance with the hearings.
11:00In the Senate, Sheila Guo and in the same detention room in the Senate,
11:04Alice Guo is expected to be sentenced when she returns to the Philippines.
11:09We assure their safety.
11:12If I need to add more personnel to guard them 24-7, we will do it.
11:19They will be together in the room and allowed to use cellphones.
11:22They are not criminals.
11:26But Senator Wynne Gatchalian is different.
11:29If she wants to call and talk to her lawyer or other people she needs to talk to,
11:35she should use a cellphone outside of the detention cell, a common cellphone.
11:41And there is a permission, of course, from our Sergeant-at-Arms.
11:47That is the nature of detention.
11:50And we can also avoid her contact with other people outside.
11:55We don't know who else she can talk to.
12:00We know she has links with syndicates.
12:03Maybe she can talk to these syndicates.
12:06The Senate Committee on Women, Children, Family Relations, and Gender Equality
12:10still has a lot of questions for Alice.
12:12Just like any official of the government and law enforcement agencies,
12:16they are against the spread of illegal drugs in the Central Zone.
12:21I am fully expecting that she will speak completely and truthfully
12:26because this arrest proves that she will not be able to escape.
12:32And those who helped her escape, we will not question them.
12:39According to the Senate Committee on Women, Children, Family Relations,
12:41a house in Paranaque is under house arrest for an illegal drug operation.
12:46The court has an office here.
12:49That license has already been cancelled.
12:53As of May 27, they received the cancellation order due to violations.
13:04After the Banban and Porak incident, we will put people under house arrest 24-7.
13:12That's why, Senator Tulfo, that's the reason why our inspectors recommended nine violations.
13:26Sir, let me just finish.
13:28Collector for the possession.
13:30Senators of the Pagkor, Dolly and PNP were asked
13:33how they will close the so-called 208 illegal Pogos in the country
13:38and if the 41 Pogos that are still legal until December 31 will be impacted.
13:45The Bureau of Immigration announced the cancellation of the 9G visas.
13:52The 9G visas cannot be cancelled until December 31
13:58because if that happens, first of all, how will the so-called foreign workers leave?
14:03We are here with the cancelled alien employment permit.
14:08What we cancelled in NCR as of 2023, 24,361.
14:15Central Ocean, 513.
14:18Calabarzon, 2,121.
14:21And Region 10, 67.
14:24Now, if they were allowed to go home or not,
14:34our answer to that is we are giving this to the BI and they are facilitating it.
14:43Chino Gaston reporting for GMA Integrated News.
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