Alice Guo and homeschooling composite picture from INQUIRER file and inventory photographs
MANILA, Philippines — Documentary and testimonial proof level to suspended Bamban Mayor Alice Guo as one of many masterminds of the raided Philippine offshore gaming operator (Pogo) corporations in her city, Sen. Sherwin Gatchalian stated on Tuesday.
Guo denied her ties with Hongsheng Gaming Expertise Inc. and Zun Yuan Expertise Inc. when she testified earlier than the Senate committee on ladies in Could.
However for Gatchalian, the continued investigation into the difficulty has unmasked the folks behind the Pogo agency.
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“As to the Bamban problem, mukhang klaro na kung sino yung mga tao na nasa likod,” he stated in an interview over Radyo 630.
(As for the Bamban problem, it appears clear who the folks behind it are.)
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“Unang-una dito si Alice Guo, or Guo Hua Ping, ang talagang masasabi nating isa sa mga mastermind,” the senator added, citing the testimony of Guo’s accountant, Nancy Gamo.
(Initially, Alice Guo, or Guo Hua Ping, can positively be thought-about one of many masterminds.)
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Incorporation papers
Throughout Monday’s listening to of the ladies’s panel, Gamo admitted that she assisted Guo in securing incorporation papers for her and her household’s corporations.
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“Mayor Alice Guo was a shopper of mine. Consumer on a per transaction foundation — per challenge. I occurred to register the firms owned by her household manner again in 2012. After which there are additionally different firms, together with the 2 Pogo corporations,” Gamo stated.
Hongsheng was raided in February 2023 however reportedly continued its operation as Zun Yuan Expertise till it was raided on March 13, 2024.
In the course of the March raid, authorities discovered paperwork linking Guo to the agency, as earlier revealed by Gatchalian.
The paperwork, based on the senator, embody a billing assertion from Tarlac II Electrical Cooperative Inc. displaying that Zun Yuan’s electrical meter was registered underneath Guo’s identify and a automobile, which was additionally registered underneath her identify.
However the place is Guo to reply all the problems raised in opposition to her?
“We’ve acquired varied details about her whereabouts, about her location. I can’t disclose proper now as a result of everyone seems to be searching for her,” Gatchalian stated in one other interview on ANC.
Within the meantime, he stated the Senate is getting ready a criticism in opposition to Guo for ignoring the summons and arrest order by the chamber.
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