Gatchalian: 3 POGO-linked foreigners helped Guo abroad

Senator Sherwin Gatchalian on Thursday revealed POGO-linked foreigners who supposedly helped dismissed Bamban, Tarlac Mayor Alice Guo when she was hiding abroad.

They are Duanren Wu, Zhang Jie, and Huang Zhiyang.

Gatchalian said these individuals "booked the hotels and facilitated their travels."

He also pointed out that in the video of Guo's arrest, there were Chinese-speaking individuals in the background.

So, obviously, ang contact rin ni Guo Hua Ping doon, mga Chinese rin. So yan yung network niya," Gatchalian said.

Wu is an incorporator of the Whirlwind Corp., which leased the property in Porac, Pampanga where the Lucky South 99 compound is located.

Huang is one of Guo's co-incorporators in Baofu Land Development which leased the land to the raided POGO firm in Bamban, Tarlac. 

He is also reported to a Chinese fugitive who was found to have five passports in a raid in Clark, Pampanga.

Huang is said to be the "boss of all bosses" of illegal POGOs.

Zhang Jie is supposedly the former president of Lucky South 99, the raided POGO firm in Porac.

It is not yet established if Guo identified one of these three foreigners as the person who "facilitated" their escape from the Philippines.

During the Senate hearing on Monday, Guo said they left the Philippines via boat transfers, starting with a yacht in Metro Manila.

Guo refused to name the person who supposedly facilitated their escape. Pressed by the senators, she later wrote the name on paper.

Senator Risa Hontiveros said the person named by the former mayor to the senators was already mentioned in previous hearings while Senate President Pro Tempore Jinggoy Estrada dropped hints that the person that Guo has written on the paper is the "boss of all the POGO bosses" and a passport holder of five countries, particularly Kitts and Nevis, China, Cyprus, Dominica and Cambodia. —NB, GMA Integrated News