Dismissed Bamban Mayor Alice Guo on the resumption of the Senate listening to on Pogo hub on Tuesday, September 24, 2024. Noy Morcoso/INQUIRER.web
MANILA, Philippines — Dismissed Mayor Alice Guo pleaded not responsible to expenses of certified human trafficking earlier than a Pasig Metropolis Regional Trial Court docket (RTC) on Friday in connection along with her alleged involvement with a leasing firm that handled a Philippine offshore gaming operators (Pogos) in Bamban, Tarlac.
The net arraignment earlier than RTC Department 167 was in relation to her alleged involvement within the unlawful actions of Hongsheng Gaming Expertise Inc., that was raided by authorities final 12 months, and which found greater than 800 alleged victims of human trafficking, virtually half of which had been overseas nationals.
Nicole Jamilla, one in every of Guo’s attorneys, insisted on Guo’s innocence.
“She actually has no involvement in trafficking. That, with out going into additional particulars, as a result of we’d get into sub judice, however on the a part of our shopper, she is agency that she isn’t responsible of the crime being accused of her,” Jamilla mentioned.
Authorized nightmare
Final week, the Pasig court docket ordered the Philippine Nationwide Police to switch Guo from their headquarters in Camp Crame to Pasig Metropolis Jail Feminine Dormitory, Bureau of Jail and Administration Penology situated at Nagpayong, Barangay Pinagbuhatan in Pasig.
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The costs filed towards her are additionally nonbailable however Stephen David, one other lawyer of Guo, advised the Inquirer on Friday via a textual content message that they filed a petition to permit her to put up bail on Thursday.
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Guo can also be going through graft and corruption expenses earlier than Valenzuela RTC Department 282, which was transferred from the Tarlac RTC Department 109.
She can also be going through a quo warranto case earlier than a Manila court docket, arguing her ineligibility to carry public workplace for being a Chinese language citizen after the Nationwide Bureau of Investigation discovered that her fingerprints matched that of a Chinese language nationwide named Guo Hua Ping.
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A cash laundering grievance was additionally filed towards her earlier than the Division of Justice final month for allegedly hiding her monetary involvement within the 8 hectares of land of the Baofu compound, which housed the Pogo Hongsheng (now referred to as Zun Yuan Expertise Inc.)
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Guo was apprehended in Indonesia by native police in early September after she fled the Philippines in July when she was the topic of a number of hearings within the Senate for her alleged involvement within the Pogo trade and her alleged Chinese language nationality.
