Alice Guo slips past immigration system

Metro Manila, Philippines – A controversial mayor at the center of a Senate investigation on trafficking and illegal online gaming has slipped past immigration monitoring and is now out of the country, the Bureau of Immigration (BI) said on Tuesday, Aug. 20.

BI Commissioner Norman Tansingco said the exit of dismissed Bamban, Tarlac Mayor Alice Guo from the Philippines was not logged in the immigration system. The Justice Department has issued an immigration lookout bulletin order on the mayor.

“We received intelligence information from our counterparts abroad that Guo illegally left for Malaysia then flew to Singapore,” Tansingco said in a statement.

“So far we have not received any turnover or reports related to Guo from other agencies, including those manning our maritime borders,” he added.

Tansingco said Guo, whose real name is Guo Hua Ping as revealed in the Senate probe, went to Malaysia as early as July.

On July 21, she supposedly proceeded to Singapore with her siblings Shiela Leal Guo and Wesley Leal Guo.

Senator Risa Hontiveros, in a privilege speech on Monday, first revealed that Guo is no longer in the country.

Guo is facing a Senate investigation for her alleged link to an online gaming operator which supposedly committed crimes such as human trafficking and serious illegal detention.

NewsWatch Plus correspondent Daniza Fernandez contributed to this report.