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Dismissed Bamban Mayor Alice Guo is presented to the media inside a room at the Royal Star Aviation hangar in Pasay City shortly after her arrival on Sept. 6, 2024. Maria Tan, ABS-CBN News

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ALICE GUO

Zyann Ambrosio

ABS-CBN News

<div><span class="fr-img-caption fr-fic fr-dib" style="width:900px"><span class="fr-img-wrap"><img src="https://od2-image-api.abs-cbn.com/prod/editorImage/172560843871320240906-alice guo-arrival-presscon-MT-10.jpg" style="width:900px" class="fr-fic fr-dib"/><span class="fr-inner" style="text-align:left"><span id="isPasted" style="color:rgb(51, 51, 51);letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;display:inline !important;float:none">Dismissed Bamban Mayor Alice Guo is presented to the media inside a room at the Royal Star Aviation hangar in Pasay City shortly after her arrival on Sept. 6, 2024. Maria Tan, ABS-CBN News</span> </span></span></span></div><div><br/></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">MANILA – Dismissed Bamban Mayor Alice Guo had up to 6 foreign &quot;supporters&quot; and hid at a monk’s house before her arrest in Indonesia this week, an International Criminal Police Organization (Interpol) official said Friday. </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br/></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">A female monk had offered Guo sanctuary at a house in Tangerang City, said the head of the Interpol in Indonesia, Inspector General Krisha Murti. </span><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br/></span><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br/></span><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">He said Guo’s foreign &quot;supporters&quot; included 5 Chinese and an Indonesian. They handled all her needs, including her online transactions, he said. </span><br/><br/><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">&quot;<span data-teams="true" id="isPasted"><span dir="ltr">Some supporters...know nothing about Alice Guo, said they only support her, like renting a car, paying the hotel... They transfer money from [another] country,&quot; <span id="isPasted" style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;display:inline !important;float:none">Murti</span> said. </span></span></span><br/><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><span data-teams="true" id="isPasted"></span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br/></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">He said under this &quot;business&quot; transaction, Guo gave money to her cohorts for car rental, food, SIM card, and hotel bills.  </p><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br/></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">The official noted that Guo entered Indonesia from Singapore &quot;legally&quot; without any <span data-teams="true" id="isPasted"><span dir="ltr">red notice. </span></span></p><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br/></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span data-teams="true"><span dir="ltr">&quot;So she was like an ordinary person from overseas country coming to Indonesia,&quot; he said. </span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br/></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span data-teams="true"><span dir="ltr">But Indonesia authorities received information from their Philippine counterparts on Guo and her companions, which later led to the arrest of her reported sister Shiela and gambling hub representative Cassandra Ong. </span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br/></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span data-teams="true"><span dir="ltr">Guo was not with Shiela and Ong at that time and it took </span></span>&quot;<span data-teams="true"><span dir="ltr">tough work&quot; to find her, he added. </span></span><span data-teams="true"><span dir="ltr"></span></span><br/><span data-teams="true"><span dir="ltr"></span></span><br/><span data-teams="true"><span dir="ltr">He said authorities had to sift through intelligence reports and surveillance footage to find Guo.   </span></span></p><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">The Indonesian official clarified that there was no deal to swap Guo for <span id="isPasted" style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);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:pre-wrap;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;display:inline !important;float:none">Gregor Johann Haas, an Australian man wanted by Jakarta for drug trafficking charges and who was arrested in the Philippines. </span></p><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br/></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span id="isPasted"><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/2024/9/6/marcos-denies-deal-to-swap-alice-guo-with-australian-suspect-1354">Marcos denies deal to swap Alice Guo with Australian suspect</a></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Guo had been on the run since she was linked to a Chinese-run online gambling center where hundreds of people were forced to run scams or risk torture. Following her arrest in</span><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> Indonesia on Tuesday, she returned to the Philippines at around 1:30 a.m. on Friday. </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br/></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Guo is now in the custody of the Philippines National Police. </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br/><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/2024/9/6/senate-crame-or-tarlac-conflict-over-alice-guo-custody-looms-1125" id="isPasted" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(93, 155, 192);text-decoration:none;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(255, 255, 255)">• Senate or Camp Crame? Conflict over Alice Guo custody looms</a></div><div style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 9px;line-height:21px;overflow-wrap:break-word;color:rgb(51, 51, 51);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(255, 255, 255);text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/2024/9/6/alice-guo-returns-to-tarlac-to-face-court-1151" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(93, 155, 192);text-decoration:none">Alice Guo back in Crame after facing Tarlac court</a><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><br/><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><br/><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">She faces charges of graft, money laundering and human trafficking in relation to the scam-farm raid in Bamban.</span><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><br/><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><br/><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Guo is also wanted by the Philippine Senate for refusing to attend hearings on her alleged ties to scam-farm operations in Bamban.</span><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/2024/9/5/no-cellphone-no-aircon-no-special-treatment-for-alice-guo-inside-crame-pnp-517" id="isPasted"></a><br/><br/><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/2024/9/5/no-cellphone-no-aircon-no-special-treatment-for-alice-guo-inside-crame-pnp-517">• No cellphone, no aircon: PNP says no special treatment for Alice Guo</a><br/><br/></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><strong>– With a report from Agence France-Presse </strong></span></div><div><br/></div><div><br/></div>

<p>Dismissed Bamban Mayor Alice Guo had up to 6 foreign "supporters" and hid at a monk’s house before her arrest in Indonesia this week, an Interpol official said. </p>

Dismissed Bamban Mayor Alice Guo had up to 6 foreign "supporters" and hid at a monk’s house before her arrest in Indonesia this week, an Interpol official said.

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Guo had up to 6 foreign 'supporters', hid at monk’s house: Indonesian official

Zyann Ambrosio,

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Published Sep 06, 2024 03:48 PM PHT

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Updated Sep 06, 2024 05:06 PM PHT

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