'Alice Guo - Guo Hua Ping,' dokumentaryo ni John Consulta | I-Witness
Naging malaking usapin ang paglabas sa bansa ni dismissed Bamban Mayor Alice Guo na napag-alaman na isa palang Chinese national na nagngangalang si Guo Hua Ping.
Sa pagbalik niya ng bansa mula sa pagkakahuli sa Indonesia, ano-ano nga bang kaso ang haharapin niya? Paano at sino nga ba ang tumulong sa kanya para makalabas siya ng bansa?
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Sa pagbalik niya ng bansa mula sa pagkakahuli sa Indonesia, ano-ano nga bang kaso ang haharapin niya? Paano at sino nga ba ang tumulong sa kanya para makalabas siya ng bansa?
Alamin 'yan sa special episode ng #IWitness kasama si John Consulta.
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Thumnbail Text: Ano-anong kaso nga ba ang haharapin ni Alice Guo nang makabalik siya sa bansa?
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00:00On September 5, in Jakarta, Indonesia, I was part of one of the biggest operations this year.
00:21We are here in Jakarta, Indonesia, where we are joined by the team of the Bureau of Immigration and the National Bureau of Investigation from Manila.
00:34The arrest of Dismissed Mayor Alice Buho, who is facing 87 counts of money laundering for more than 7 billion pesos.
00:45There is a petition from the Solicitor General to cancel her Philippine birth certificate.
00:52And cited in contempt and there is a warrant of arrest from the Senate.
00:57There seems to be clear documentary evidence linking the local government of Bantan, specifically the mayor, to the operations.
01:06Your Honor, I don't know.
01:08Because of her responsibility in the Pogo operations in Bambantarlak and Porak, Pampanga.
01:16Despite all of this, she was able to return to the country last July, to her friend, the banks that brought her to Malaysia.
01:25Probably, they even left even before the arrest order was issued, Your Honor.
01:32That's a blue notice. It's hard to hide. Your world will shrink if you are a fugitive from justice.
01:38How are you, ma'am? How are you?
01:49In an apartment in Tangerang City, an hour away from Jakarta.
01:54Excuse me.
01:55Hi.
01:56I'm on the phone.
01:57Hey, Alice. Alice. Alice. Alice.
01:59Alice Buho, or Buho Hua Ping, was arrested for helping the mission order issued by the Bureau of Immigration.
02:08More than 10 operatives of the Bureau of Immigration and the NBI were with her.
02:13Alice Buho will be returning to the Philippines.
02:18I was with her. She is currently awaiting her arrest.
02:28Well, this operation is very unusual for us because we are used to being the ones who are being arrested for them.
02:35And this time around, we are the ones who are talking to them to arrest our fugitive.
02:42That's when we saw the strength of the network.
02:49On September 5, PNP Chief Robel Marbil and BILJ Secretary Benhur Abalos arrived in Jakarta.
02:57Just to help. Because our time is limited.
03:01To be honest, the Indonesian counterparts told me that Alice has a chance to leave Indonesia.
03:08Because just like the Philippines, their borders are also porous.
03:13Aside from the land borders, their borders are also porous.
03:20This is not the first time that I was involved in an operation to arrest a foreign fugitive.
03:34I was also involved in the deportation of Yuki Watanabe, alias Luffy.
03:44From the Philippines to Japan.
03:47They are the masterminds of a wide range of scamming operations in Japan.
03:52The headquarters are here in the Philippines.
03:57In June this year, a Canadian national who is behind the second biggest drug haul in the country was arrested.
04:06Mr. Thomas Gordon O'Quinn, also known as James Toby Martin.
04:11Thomas Gordon O'Quinn, alias James Martin.
04:15Well, this past decade, the entry of foreign nationals using fake passports has escalated.
04:23For example, Senator Binay exposed to the Senate that out of the 70,000 who applied for residency visas here,
04:35more than 30,000 are Chinese nationals.
04:40And they are 35 years old.
04:43It means they are not retirable.
04:44That's why it's very suspicious.
04:46That's huge.
04:48Even though foreign fugitives have been arrested in the Philippines for a long time,
04:52this is the first time that a government official has been caught.
05:02It is possible that there is a connection to other fugitives.
05:06Where were you born?
05:08Your Honor, he told me in this house.
05:10Where is your house?
05:12Your Honor, I don't know.
05:14The last time the public saw Alice Guo was at the Senate hearing on May 22, 2024.
05:21This is where her nationality was revealed.
05:25Can you please state once again your mother's name?
05:28Amelia Leal, my biological mother.
05:31Did you know that your mother is Filipino?
05:34Yes, that's what my father told me.
05:37And I grew up here in the Philippines.
05:40And Madam Senator, I don't have any other citizenship other than Filipino.
05:46At the next hearing, Guo submitted an excuse letter so that she won't go.
05:53Your continued refusal is outrageous.
05:56Before the search for Mayor Alice Guo in Indonesia started,
06:01there were efforts to get her here in the Philippines.
06:05I can probably recount four efforts that were made by the immigration and NBI
06:15to look for her here in Central Luzon and Metro Manila.
06:21In Zambales, the operatives first went to look for Guo.
06:26We also had an operation here in a resort in Zambales
06:30because there was information that the boss of Lucky South, Pogo in Porak, ran there.
06:37And there was information that the former Mayor Alice Guo was also there.
06:43There was also a CCTV video of a woman who looks like Alice Guo
06:48who hurriedly left in a white SUV.
06:52Although we had information back then,
06:55we were told that she was being followed by her doppelgangers
07:01just to divert the attention of those looking for her.
07:05Because during that time, we were not the only ones operating.
07:08We were also closely working with the NBI and I know that the PNP also had efforts at that time.
07:14She had been gone for about one or two weeks.
07:18So, we went to the area a bit late.
07:22Even though Guo was not caught,
07:30a big boss of Lucky South 99 was caught.
07:35We were able to catch a Chinese hacker of Lucky South.
07:39He was one of the bosses of Lucky South.
07:43That was also a big thing for us
07:47because these hackers could not operate their Pogo without these hackers.
07:56The next destination of the operatives was Batangas.
08:00This is it, Kapuso. We are now close to the target area.
08:04I will show you.
08:07The movement was covert but it was limited
08:10because the same place that was said to be hidden by Ms. Mayor Alice Guo
08:17is a resort that is really huge.
08:22And its location is very strategic because it is at the tip of the island
08:27and it cannot be seen from any vantage point on the island.
08:35There are two approaches to that resort.
08:38One is by sea and the other is by land.
08:43So, before you can reach the back of the resort,
08:46you need to use tricycles.
08:50You can only ride a tricycle because you cannot use four wheels on the island
08:55because the road is too narrow.
08:58At the same time, PNP, NBI and Bureau of Immigration found the operatives in the said place.
09:06But...
09:07We found out that our movements were delayed for one or two weeks.
09:13So, we cannot say that this is what we saw on CCTV that time.
09:18Although, we were able to validate that
09:20based on the videos that were sent by the confidential informant,
09:26because we moved from Zambales to Batangas,
09:30there was a video that was shown to us.
09:32Our theory that she went through Batangas was stronger
09:36because if you remember, Sheila said that they traveled from Tarlac for four to five hours.
09:43If you look at it, that's exactly where Batangas is.
09:46And from Batangas, you can go to Palawan and from Palawan to Malaysia.
09:53When August 19 arrived,
09:56the news came out that Guo had already left the country.
10:04Along with other personalities who also traveled to Pogo,
10:08Sheila Guo and Cassandra Leong.
10:11It was only then that Guo entered Malaysia on July 18
10:16and Singapore on July 21.
10:22And from their CCTV footage,
10:24it was seen that Guo was already in Indonesia this August.
10:34They just flew to Batam from Singapore just to renew their visa
10:39because I believe they will be overstaying in Singapore that day for 30 days.
10:46So that's what tourists usually do in Singapore.
10:49The good thing is that our Indonesian counterparts are very proactive.
10:54And I think during that time,
10:56the commissioners and directors of various immigration bureaus of various Southeast Asian countries also had a conference.
11:03So there, they had a real-time exchange of information.
11:10Most of the agents of the B.I. and N.B.I. Fugitive Search Unit were left in Indonesia
11:16to have a hot pursuit of Dismissed Mayor Alice Guo.
11:21So their search lasted for two weeks.
11:27They got CCTVs of where Dismissed Mayor Alice Guo landed.
11:33Dismissed Mayor Alice Guo came from Batam.
11:36She boarded an airplane and landed at an airport in Jakarta.
11:43From the point of view of the camera,
11:47you can see that Alice Guo was walking
11:51and she noticed that her hair was short.
11:54And she was accompanied by a man who was behind her.
11:59He was known by the B.I. as Dwarren Wu, one of the bosses of Lucky South 99.
12:10It turned out that Alice Guo was caught
12:14because she bought SIM cards in Indonesia.
12:18So what happened there,
12:19at one of the hotels she stayed at,
12:22the Indonesian police got a SIM card holder.
12:27There were three SIM cards.
12:29They checked it.
12:30One of them was active.
12:31That's when they got an idea of the location
12:35using that cell phone number.
12:37It was in a remote village outside Jakarta that day.
12:43So it just so happened that when they checked that village,
12:47that villa in a remote village,
12:50she was there.
12:51She didn't have machinery like what she did here in the Philippines
12:55where there are private resorts
12:59or we have information that there are undergrounds.
13:02It was really challenging when she was here in the Philippines
13:05because her machinery was here.
13:07Her money was here.
13:09The good thing is that when she was in Indonesia,
13:11her logistics were limited.
13:15There were only a limited number of people who could help her.
13:19The public saw Alice Guo in her first hearing in the Senate on May 24.
13:27I don't really remember what year it was.
13:31It was revealed in the hearings that the mayor of Bambantarlak,
13:35one of the incorporators of Baofu Land Development Incorporated,
13:40a real estate company,
13:43Baofu Compound, located next to the municipality of Bamban,
13:47has more than 30 buildings with dormitories,
13:51villas, and underground tunnels.
13:55It was raided twice.
13:57The first time was in February 2023
14:00because a company that operates there,
14:04Hongsheng Gaming Corporation,
14:07was involved in cryptocurrency scams.
14:13It was raided again in March 2024
14:17for human trafficking,
14:19serious illegal detention,
14:21and torture.
14:23It's not just a simple crime.
14:26As I said, hiding in plain sight,
14:29it was discovered.
14:31It was discovered that there was an illegal pogo in Bamban,
14:35a small municipality with a huge pogo hub.
14:38There was also a torture chamber,
14:40a gun range,
14:42and a mall.
14:44So that impunity was discovered.
14:46And of course, it will go to the government.
14:51In the raid of the authorities,
14:53this is where Alice Guo's name was seen
14:56in the electricity bill,
14:58statement of accounts,
15:00and in the salary of the housekeeping staff.
15:05Your Honor,
15:07Your Honor,
15:13But who is Alice Guo,
15:15or Guo Huaping,
15:17who grew up on a farm
15:19and only went to home school?
15:22And won as mayor
15:24because of more than 16,000 votes in Bamban Talak.
15:30That's why it became a celebrated case.
15:32Because of that,
15:33elected official,
15:34theoretically,
15:35her fake papers
15:37can enable her to run for president.
15:40Theoretically.
15:42This discussion is that serious
15:45in terms of falsification of public documents.
15:50Imagine that.
15:51Theoretically,
15:52you can be the president of the country,
15:54or a selaton,
15:55because of those papers
15:56that show that you are a natural-born citizen.
16:00It's systemic.
16:02For example,
16:03if you compare it to China,
16:05we don't know anything about the system of China.
16:08It's a closed country for us.
16:10We don't know,
16:12an ambassador told me,
16:15all Filipinos in China
16:18can be brought back in 24 hours.
16:20Because we know where they are.
16:22That's their system.
16:24For us,
16:25these foreign syndicates,
16:27these foreign aggressors,
16:29they carefully studied,
16:30profiled our system.
16:32What are the weaknesses?
16:33What are the vulnerabilities?
16:35Who can be bought?
16:37Who has no loyalty to the country?
16:39Who is looking for life?
16:41High government officials,
16:42middle-level government officials.
16:44They assessed us,
16:46and they are using that to get in.
16:51Yesterday,
16:52this Thursday,
16:53Indonesia completely turned over
16:56the former Mayor Alice Guo
16:58to the Philippine court.
17:01That's when we saw,
17:03for the first time,
17:05this is Dismissed Mayor Alice Guo.
17:07She came out of a door,
17:09when it was opened,
17:11she came out,
17:12she was escorted by some Indonesian authorities,
17:14and she came out,
17:15she came out in front of
17:18Secretary Bener Abalos.
17:21At first,
17:22I was also surprised by her reaction,
17:24when she was first given to us
17:26by the Indonesian authorities.
17:28The whole time,
17:29she was smiling,
17:30and she was very relaxed.
17:32And when I had the chance
17:34to talk to her,
17:35I asked her,
17:36I said,
17:37is it true that you really want to give up?
17:40She said,
17:41yes, she really wants to give up.
17:42Actually, she said,
17:43if you don't catch us,
17:44if you don't catch me,
17:45I'll give up in a week,
17:47because she was also hopeless.
17:50She was also afraid,
17:51because she told me
17:53that someone told her
17:55that there was a death threat.
17:56Although,
17:57we need to know
17:58if it's true or not.
18:02When Alice Guo
18:03faced us,
18:04her reaction was different,
18:07and this is not what I expected.
18:29How do you feel?
18:30I'm good.
18:31You're good?
18:32Yeah, I'm good.
18:33Are you okay now?
18:34Yeah.
18:35Okay.
18:42This means that Alice Guo
18:43will be nervous,
18:44scared,
18:45and confused.
18:46But,
18:47in those moments,
18:48we were all surprised
18:49when she introduced herself,
18:53talked to people,
18:55and was very interactive.
18:57Just one, mom.
18:58Just one.
18:59Come on.
19:00Come down.
19:01Okay.
19:02Do you remember me?
19:03Yes.
19:04Let's take a picture.
19:05In those moments,
19:07Alice Guo became a celebrity.
19:11I'm sorry.
19:12Here, here, here.
19:14This did not please
19:15some lawmakers,
19:17including
19:18Senator Rizal Contimeros.
19:20Another reminder
19:21to our government colleagues,
19:24social events should not be
19:26the reason for arresting
19:28a person
19:29who is involved in
19:30a series of cases
19:32in which Alice Guo
19:33played with the laws of the Philippines.
19:37There are a lot of cases
19:39that will be filed against her.
19:41Money laundering,
19:42human trafficking,
19:44tax evasion,
19:46falsification of documents,
19:48etc., etc.
19:49There might be more.
19:51But qualified human trafficking
19:53is non-bailable.
19:55That is a heinous crime.
19:57So, the image
19:58of our Secretary of the Interior,
20:01DILG,
20:02and Chief PNP
20:03is not good.
20:04They were even smiling
20:06when they arrested Alice Guo
20:08because usually,
20:09those kinds of crimes
20:11are heinous crimes.
20:12They were even posing
20:13in front of the press conference.
20:17But here,
20:18they were even taking selfies.
20:19There were even signals, etc.
20:21So, the image is not good.
20:24DILG immediately defended
20:26Secretary Benel Avalos
20:28for defamation.
20:29This kind of photos,
20:30like, wait,
20:31as long as they are facing each other,
20:32you cannot tell
20:33what's next to you,
20:34etc., etc.
20:35And this photo
20:36is an offshoot
20:37of that meeting
20:38that DILG documented.
20:40I do not know
20:41what he was doing
20:42to pose like that.
20:44So, I hope
20:45these women will understand.
20:47It was never a selfie.
20:48He was posing like this.
20:50Let's just take him
20:51while you are talking
20:52about things.
20:57What that means is,
20:59first,
21:00I have a lot of supporters
21:01in the government.
21:02Second,
21:03maybe he is just good
21:04because he became a mayor
21:05even though he is not Filipino.
21:06So, that means
21:07he also has a skill set
21:08for that.
21:09He also prepared.
21:10If I get caught,
21:11I will not look pitiful.
21:12If I get caught,
21:13I will not look guilty.
21:14So, you can think about that.
21:18Aside from the many cases
21:19and controversies
21:21that Alice Guo is waiting
21:22for her return to the country,
21:25there are other cases
21:26that are waiting for her
21:27and her constituents
21:28in the town of Bamban.
21:30Mauricipio is now
21:31a new painting
21:32when she was suspended
21:34from her position
21:35as the mayor of Bamban.
21:37So, help me God.
21:38God help me.
21:39Congratulations.
21:44Mauricipio's counselor
21:45Eranio Timbang
21:46has been working
21:47in Bamban
21:48for more than 20 years.
21:49He is a former
21:50mayor of Bamban.
21:52Mauricipio's counselor
21:53Eranio Timbang
21:54is his replacement.
21:57He was the acting mayor
21:58of Bamban
21:59when he gave
22:00his permission
22:01for her return
22:02to the country.
22:05Despite the issues
22:06that Alice Guo is facing,
22:09her constituents
22:10still feel
22:11her support.
22:14We are surprised
22:15in Bamban
22:16because Mayor Alice Guo
22:18is not really a Filipino.
22:21Bamban is hurt
22:23because she loved us.
22:25Who is to blame?
22:27Him or his constituents?
22:30In the beginning,
22:31not the Filipinos,
22:32they should have
22:33changed her.
22:35Since she was a kid,
22:36I am 40 years old now,
22:37but Bamban changed
22:39because of her.
22:40I hope Mayor Alice Guo
22:41will return.
22:43Bamban needs you.
22:45That's all.
22:46Of course,
22:47they are sad
22:48about the closed Pogo Hub.
22:50Maybe some of them
22:51who have side lines
22:52or jobs there
22:53lost their jobs.
22:54They will really feel bad
22:56and they will miss
22:57the Pogo Hub
22:58that is so big
22:59in their municipality.
23:02But Alice Guo's case
23:03is even bigger
23:04when it comes to
23:05the Pogos.
23:07Because the Pogo
23:08has become
23:09a national security issue.
23:10Our own government
23:11said so,
23:12PAOC said so,
23:13DOJ said so.
23:14It has become
23:15a national security issue.
23:16This is the first time
23:17that a foreign national
23:18with fake papers
23:20became a mayor,
23:21became an elected official.
23:23Aside from the criminal case
23:25of human trafficking
23:27and money laundering
23:28in relation to the Pogo Hub,
23:30human trafficking
23:32or syndicated
23:33or qualified human trafficking
23:35is non-bailable
23:37because the punishment
23:38is life imprisonment.
23:40It means that
23:41it is at the level
23:42of heinous crime.
23:47After more than
23:48two months of hiding,
23:49finally,
23:50Guo Huaping,
23:51who is considered
23:52a VIP or
23:53a very important
23:54prisoner of the country,
23:55was arrested.
23:58Because of our efforts
23:59to catch their fugitives,
24:00that is also what we used
24:01to talk to them
24:02to help us
24:03to find
24:04our fugitive here.
24:05It is a bit challenging
24:06because of course
24:07we are not a territory
24:08and we cannot
24:09do what we are doing
24:10here.
24:11We are not a territory
24:12and we cannot
24:13do what we are doing
24:14here.
24:15But it is very fulfilling
24:16that we were able
24:17to achieve that
24:18through the cooperation
24:19between two countries.
24:24In arresting Guo,
24:27the Senate hearings
24:28will continue
24:29to investigate
24:31and find
24:32the truth.
24:41I have no other
24:42citizenship
24:43if it is not
24:44Filipino.
24:58In the gradual
24:59discovery
25:00of the true
25:01identity
25:02of Alice Guo
25:04or Guo Huaping,
25:06the questions
25:07increased.
25:10Is there another
25:11Alice Guo
25:12in the country?
25:14Who are the people
25:15who are behind
25:16the help
25:17of people
25:18like her?
25:19Because we were able
25:20to bring her home
25:21and now she is in front
25:22of the Senate,
25:23that is what we
25:24should be able
25:25to investigate.
25:26As much as possible,
25:27we should know
25:28who facilitated
25:29and where she
25:30really went.
25:32Because that is
25:33our goal
25:34and that is why
25:35we were eager
25:36to find her.
25:37Because the group
25:38she belongs to
25:39is a large group
25:40and that is why
25:41we were eager
25:42to bring her home
25:43and to bring her
25:44to the Senate
25:45because we have
25:46a lot of things
25:47we want to know
25:48and a lot of things
25:49we need to answer.
25:50Which is,
25:51on the other side,
25:52they don't want
25:53Alice to be exposed
25:54because she can
25:55sing a lot
25:56or she can
25:57divulge a lot
25:58that she knows
25:59about the operation.
26:00You have the right
26:01to remain silent.
26:02Everything you say
26:03can and will be held
26:04against you
26:05in a court of law.
26:06I hope we can
26:07form a super body
26:08that is above
26:09all these
26:10possible enablers.
26:11The officials
26:12will help Alice Gou
26:13to really
26:14settle this
26:15once and for all
26:16because it looks like
26:17a lot of people
26:18have entered.
26:21It looks like
26:22Alice Gou
26:23and these pogo hubs
26:24in Bamban
26:25and Porak
26:26are just the tip
26:27of the iceberg.
26:28Maybe there are
26:29more bigger ones.
26:34From Jakarta,
26:35Indonesia,
26:36I am
26:37John Consulta
26:39and this is
26:40the Eyewitness.
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