Alice Guo may have gotten 'assistance' from public officials —PAOCC 

The Presidential Anti-Organized Crime Commission (PAOCC) on Saturday said that public officials could have assisted dismissed Bamban, Tarlac Mayor Alice Guo fled the country despite the Immigration Lookout Bulletin Order (ILBO) against her. 

“This would not have happened if no private individuals or maybe public officials have assisted her,” PAOCC spokesperson Winston Casio said in a news forum.

“An operation of that magnitude has so many moving parts and to control an information such as that would require a technical expertise that is not available to just a simple party or individual,” he added.

Casio also said that Guo may have received help to get to Batam, Indonesia.

"There may be a clue given that yung dalawang business partners nitong nina Guo at Li Ong ng Singaporean na si Zhang Jie at yung Chinese national na may hawak ding passport na si Duanren Wu ay mayroon ding mga business interest diyan sa area na yan," Casio said on Super Radyo dzBB.

"In fact, napag-alaman namin na yung nagbayad nung hotel... doon sa Harris hotel Batam Center for the Guo siblings at Li Ong ay yung person of interest natin sa Lucky South 99 yung Singaporean national na si Zhang Jie."

It was Senator Risa Hontiveros who bared the information, on Monday that Guo, who was also identified as Chinese national Guo Hua Ping, left the country on July 18 for Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

The PAOCC also said that the Guo been to at least three countries in Southeast Asia, namely Malaysia, Singapore, and Indonesia since she left the Philippines.

Interviewed on Friday, Bureau of Immigration (BI) spokesperson Dana Sandoval said Guo was still in Indonesia and has not attempted to leave the country.

“She could not have done it on her own… napakatanga naman namin lahat sa law enforcement… so someone, somewhere kept on dribbling the ball,” Casio said.

“That is why the President released a public statement calling all of us to conduct an investigation as to what happened….,” he said.

President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. said that an investigation is underway on the reported departure, stressing that “heads will roll.” 

Speedboats

Echoing the BI’s intel that Guo slipped out of the country without passing through the Philippines' immigration authorities, Casio said the mayor “left in two speedboats, together with some members of her party, in the early hours of our operation.”

“So we are confident that she did not leave the country via the normal way, via immigration exit points,” he said.

The PAOCC official said the Guo was last seen in the country on July 14, “apparently seen in a private resort in the western tip of Luzon.”

He said that during the “crucial period” from July 14 to 17, authorities could not locate her.”

“During those three days she was not sighted, because obviously those were the days she left the country,” he added.

“We have not seen her name in any of the flight records or vessel records from those inclusive dates,” Casio said.

Senator Risa Hontiveros earlier Monday said her information indicated that Guo, who was also identified as Chinese national Guo Hua Ping, had left the country on July 18.

“She arrived in Kuala Lumpur, July 18… her [Philippine] passport was used to get into that country,” Casio said.

“She stayed in Kuala Lumpur up until July 21,” he added.

The anti-organized crime body spokesperson said Guo “left Singapore for Batam, Indonesia via airboat last Sunday, August 18.”

“Indonesian authorities are confident that she is still secured in the Batam area,” Casio said.

—VAL, GMA Integrated News