Hiniling ni Senator Risa Hontiveros na ipaaresto na si Bamban Mayor Alice Guo at pitong iba pa matapos hindi na naman sumipot sa Senate hearing. Inilabas din sa Senado ang ilang records ni Guo na nagpapatunay na hindi umano siya lumaki sa farm at nag-home school.
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00:00A senator asked to arrest Bamban Mayor Alice Guo and 7 others after she didn't attend the Senate hearing.
00:09Some of Guo's records were also released to the Senate,
00:12proving that she didn't grow up on a farm and went to homeschool.
00:17Ma'am Gonzales was able to prove it.
00:20To Guo Huaping, alias Alice Guo, we will arrest you and will continue to bring you to the next hearing.
00:33Your continued refusal is, as Sen. Sherwin said earlier,
00:39a disgrace not only to the Senate, but to every Filipino who follows the law and opposes it.
00:49The Senate Committee on Women and Children asked to arrest suspended Bamban Tarlac Mayor Alice Guo
00:55and other personalities after they were cited and contempted for not attending the Senate hearing earlier.
01:02An excuse letter was sent to Guo's committee, saying that her physical and mental health is bad
01:08and that she has death threats and cannot walk.
01:10She also did not have a lawyer to attend the hearing.
01:13I think this letter of explanation is totally unacceptable.
01:17Therefore, I would like to move that we issue a warrant of arrest against Mayor Guo for her to attend the next hearing.
01:27Other members of the Guo family were also contempted,
01:30including her accountant Nancy Gamo and Dennis Gunanan,
01:33the former official of the government who was imprisoned in Pilafskag,
01:36who became an independent consultant of the companies behind Bamban Tarlac and Porak Pampanga.
01:42But before an arrest warrant can be issued,
01:45the committee must first issue a show-cause warrant to answer Guo's case.
01:49If their explanation is not acceptable, they will be ordered to arrest them.
01:54According to the Bureau of Immigration, Guo is in the Philippines and her name is already on the alert
02:00in case she tries to leave the Philippines.
02:02In addition to Guo, 15 officials and representatives of various companies
02:08were also arrested for being involved in illegal smuggling because the committee's invitation was snubbed.
02:12Senator Sherwin Gatchalian also issued Guo's birth certificate and school records.
02:18In the birth certificate that she submitted to the school,
02:21it was stated that her mother is a Chinese national named Wen Yilin.
02:25Guo Huaping or Alice Guo did not grow up on a farm.
02:29She did not go to home school.
02:33She studied, and I'll show you the proof.
02:36Because her real name came out in the hearing,
02:39she studied in the same school, Grace Christian High School, for grades 1, 2, and 3.
02:47Year 2000 to 2003.
02:52So she did not go to home school.
02:55She studied in Rubilin High School.
02:58And when I remember, there was no farm in our school.
03:02It was all buildings.
03:04The NBI also dismissed Guo's fingerprint examination
03:08and Guo Huaping, a Chinese national.
03:11We are sure now that Alice Guo and Guo Huaping are only one person.
03:19Westley is also the same.
03:22Westley Guo and Guo Huaping are only one person.
03:32The NBI also discovered that another brother of Mayor Guo, Sheila Guo, also has a name.
03:39We also found another NBI clearance in our files
03:45that also mentions Sheila Guo Ilial.
03:51But in our comparison,
03:54it turns out that this picture is different
03:57compared to Sheila Guo, the so-called brother.
04:03The second Sheila Leal Guo is the same address as the second Alice Leal Guo.
04:08But when the NBI went there,
04:10there was no Alice or Sheila Leal Guo there.
04:14Pagcor Chairman Alejandro Tengco faced a hearing
04:17after saying that an ex-cabinet official lobbied for their Pogo company.
04:22He was appointed by former Secretary Harry Roque on July 2023.
04:28Cassandra Ong of Lucky South 99 Pogo was also with him.
04:32Her representative, Dennis Cunanan,
04:34lobbied for money and half a million dollars were not paid in Pagcor.
04:40At that time, Lucky South 99 had a license in Pagcor.
04:44But it was later raided by PORAC Pampanga.
04:47They also said that the arrears could be payment over time
04:53because Dennis Cunanan lobbied for money.
04:57After that,
05:01Attorney Harry Roque did not talk to me.
05:08He did not pressure me.
05:11Maybe as a lawyer, as his client, he facilitated and talked to me.
05:18So there was no scenario that he was arrested?
05:20None.
05:21So Attorney Roque was just doing his job as a lawyer?
05:26Maybe because he said that he wanted to help
05:34Cassandra Ong's lawyer.
05:39According to Cunanan's lawyer,
05:41he was not accepted by the Supreme Court
05:43so he was not able to attend the hearing today.
05:45He said that he will help in the investigation of the Senate
05:48and in fact, he attended the last hearing.
05:51They will answer Pogo's issues in the right forum.
05:55But Roque admitted that he is a lawyer of Lucky South 99
05:59or any illegal Pogo.
06:01His client is a member of Whirlwind Corporation,
06:03the owner of the land owned by Porak Pogo Hub.
06:07I did not lobby for an illegal Pogo.
06:10Because of the times I went there,
06:12I did not apply for a rescheduling of payment
06:15on behalf of a company
06:18that is being serviced by the company I know, Whirlwind,
06:23which was legal at that time.
06:25Sometimes, I did not become a client of Lucky South.
06:28If I became a client of Lucky South, why would I refuse?
06:31There is no responsibility of a lawyer
06:34if a lawyer did nothing wrong
06:37if it is not his job as a lawyer.
06:40For GMA Integrated News,
06:42Mav Gonzalez, Nakatutok, 24 Hours.