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Senate fails to find Alice Guo, detains ex-accountant Gamo

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Victoria Tulad

ABS-CBN News

<div><span class="fr-img-caption fr-fic fr-dib" style="width:960px"><span class="fr-img-wrap"><img src="https://od2-image-api.abs-cbn.com/prod/editorImage/1720873799969find alice guo 07132024.jpg" style="width:960px" class="fr-fic fr-dib" alt="Personnel from the Senate Office of the Sergeant-at-Arms and the Philippine National Police searched buildings and structures in QJJ Farm but were not able to locate Guo. OSAA handout photo"/><span class="fr-inner" style="text-align:left">Personnel from the Senate Office of the Sergeant-at-Arms and the Philippine National Police searched buildings and structures in QJJ Farm but were not able to locate Guo. OSAA handout photo</span></span></span></div><p>(UPDATED) The Senate failed to find suspended Bamban Mayor Alice Guo in her registered address in Tarlac province as personnel from the Office of the Sergeant-at-Arms (OSAA) served the arrest order against her on Saturday.</p><p>According to a report sent by OSAA to Senate President Francis Escudero, they searched the buildings and structures in QJJ Farm with a contingent from the Philippine National Police, including a Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) complement, but were not able to locate Guo.</p><div><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/regions/2024/7/12/-everything-is-temporary-alice-guo-thanks-people-for-support-on-birthday-040" id="isPasted">‘Everything is temporary’: Alice Guo thanks people for support on birthday</a></div><p>Teams were also sent to a garments factory of the Guo family in Marilao, Bulacan and a garments factory allegedly belonging to them in Valenzuela City, but failed to locate Guo’s siblings Sheila, Seimen, and Wesley.</p><p>Her former accountant, Nancy Gamo, however, was found and brought to the Senate where she underwent a medical checkup.</p><p>Dennis Cunanan, former executive of the defunct Technology and Livelihood Resource Center (TLRC), was also not at his given address. </p><p>Cunanan was supposedly an authorized representative of the illegal Philippine Offshore Gaming Operators (POGOs) in Bamban and Porac, Pampanga, which were later raided and closed.</p><p>The Senate issued the arrest orders after Guo, her family members, Gamo and Cunanan snubbed the Senate hearings last June 26 and July 10 that were investigating illegal POGOs.</p><p>Arrest orders were also issued against Guo’s father, Jian Zhong Guo, and alleged mother, Wen Yi Lin, but they have already left the country.</p><p> The Senate order, signed by committee chair Sen. Risa Hontiveros and Senate President Francis “Chiz” Escudero on July 11 and made public on Saturday morning, refers to Guo as “Guo Hua Ping”, the Chinese national whom the National Bureau of Investigation says has the same fingerprints as her.</p><p style="margin-bottom:0px;line-height:normal">“The issuance of the arrest order is only the first step to making Mayor Alice Guo or Guo Hua Ping accountable…This arrest order upholds the mandate of the Senate to safeguard the well-being of Filipinos,” panel chair Hontiveros said.</p><div style="margin-bottom:0px;line-height:normal"><br style="color:rgb(232, 230, 227);letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:normal;background-color:rgb(24, 26, 27);text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;--darkreader-inline-color:#d8d4cf;--darkreader-inline-bgcolor:#131516" data-darkreader-inline-color="" data-darkreader-inline-bgcolor=""/></div><div><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/2024/7/13/senate-orders-alice-guo-s-arrest-for-contempt-852">Senate issues arrest orders for Alice Guo, others for contempt</a></div><p>Guo siblings</p><p>The Senate OSAA also failed to execute an arrest at a property in Brgy. Canumay West, Valenzuela City, for Guo&#x27;s siblings after being informed they were neither present nor property owners, according to a barangay official.</p><p>According to a man inside the gate, who spoke to ABS-CBN News, the individuals they were looking for were not there.</p><p>&quot;May pumunta po dito ma&#x27;am, pero &#x27;yung hinahanap nila wala po dito sa loob....Hindi ko po maintindihan kasi Chinese po ata yun?&quot; he said.</p><p>(Someone came here, ma&#x27;am, but the people they were looking for are not inside.... I don&#x27;t understand because it seemed to be in Chinese.)</p><p>He added that the property is a rental and not owned by the Guo family.</p><p>(They have been gone for a long time... they left already. This address is registered here, ma&#x27;am, but the people they are looking for are not here.)</p><p>Romeo Amatin, an ex-o board member of Barangay Canumay West, described the property as an industrial lot or factory. - with a report from Izzy Lee, ABS-CBN News</p><div><br/></div><div><ivs-player data-ivs-key="e8c22c015ca9eafa76f1e3edfa03c603" data-ivs-spid="3001339" data-ivs-vid="3062413"></ivs-player></div><script src="https://player.ivideosmart.com/ivsplayer/v4/dist/js/loader.js"></script><div></div><div><br/></div>

<p>The Senate failed to find suspended Bamban Mayor Alice Guo in her registered address in Tarlac province as personnel from the Office of the Sergeant-At-Arms (OSAA) served the arrest order against her on Saturday.</p>

The Senate failed to find suspended Bamban Mayor Alice Guo in her registered address in Tarlac province as personnel from the Office of the Sergeant-At-Arms (OSAA) served the arrest order against her on Saturday.