Alice Guo still in Indonesia – BI

MANILA, Philippines — Dismissed mayor Alice Leal Guo of Bamban, Tarlac is still in Indonesia amid claims of the Presidential Anti-Organized Crime Commission (PAOCC) that she is intending to slip to the Golden Triangle.

During the Bagong Pilipinas Ngayon briefing on Monday, Bureau of Immigration spokesperson Dana Sandoval said that based on information received by the BI, Guo is in Indonesia.

“Based on our coordination with our counterparts, Indonesian Immigration, mayor Alice Guo has not yet made an attempt to cross border again, since she last entered (Indonesia) on Aug. 18,” Sandoval said.

They have also not received any updated information on Guo’s brother Wesley.

“We are monitoring the situation and we are in communication with our counterparts there as well as intelligence groups in Indonesia so that we would be able to locate the whereabouts and monitor the movements of former mayor Alice Guo,” Sandoval said.

PAOCC spokesman Winston Casio earlier surmised that Guo “is trying to get into the Golden Triangle” because the Guo family reportedly has business and gambling interests in Cambodia, part of the tri-border area through which the Mekong river runs.

Casio has said that Guo is allegedly part of a big criminal organization called the Fujian Gang, and the Guos are reportedly part of the Golden Triangle triad.

Sen. Sherwin Gatchalian had said in a statement that the BI apparently kept President Marcos in the dark that Guo had left the country.

But the BI spokesperson said, “There was no intent to hide the information,” as the initial information they received was conflicting and the bureau wanted it verified.

BI Commissioner Norman Tansingco was at the time attending an Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Directors-General meeting in Vietnam from Aug. 12-16, along with other heads of immigration of the member-countries.

They received intelligence information that mayor Guo, her siblings Shiela and Wesley and Cassandra Li Ong had plane tickets for flights from Singapore back to the Philippines. The authorities waited for Guo’s group to return but they never boarded the plane.

“But it got the leadership asking questions: why does she have a ticket