Court orders Guo transfer to Pasig City jail

MANILA, Philippines — The legal woes of dismissed Bamban mayor Alice Guo are piling up, after a Pasig court ordered her transfer to the city’s jail on charges of qualified human trafficking.

Pasig Regional Trial Court (RTC) Branch 167 Judge Annielyn Medes-Cabelis ordered Guo transferred from the Philippine National Police (PNP) Custodial Center to the Pasig City Jail Female Dormitory.

The Pasig RTC set Guo’s arraignment on Sept. 27 at 8:30 a.m. through a videoconference hearing.

The judge also ordered the arrest of Guo’s co-accused: Huang Zhiyang, Rachelle Joan Carreon, Zhang Ruijin, Baoying Lin, Yu Zheng Can, Dennis Cunanan, Jamielyn Cruz, Roderick Paul Pujante, Juan Miguel Alpas, Merlie Joy Castro, Rita Yturralde, Rowena Evangelista, Thelma Laranan and Maybelline Millo, also known as “Shana Yiyi.”

In her order dated Sept. 19, the judge also ordered the transfer of Guo’s co-accused Walter Wong Long from the Tarlac Provincial Jail to the Pasig City Jail Male Dormitory.

“All the accused in these cases are not entitled to post bail as the charges against them are non-bailable,” the judge said.

PNP spokesperson Col. Jean Fajardo said they will comply with the Pasig court’s directive and will transfer Guo after her arraignment on graft charges at a Valenzuela court.

“We will honor this court order as soon as her arraignment (in Valenzuela) is finished,” Fajardo said at a news briefing.

However, Guo remained under the custody of the PNP as of yesterday afternoon, Fajardo said in a message on Viber. She explained they were waiting for the order of the Valenzuela court.

She added if Guo would post bail on her graft charges in Valenzuela, she would be brought back to Camp Crame for standard procedures such as medical examination.

“From there, we will commit her to the Pasig RTC, assuming she posts bail,” Fajardo said.

She added the Pasig court’s order takes precedence over the directive of the court in Valenzuela.

“We have to give priority there because her case there is non-bailable,” she said.

The arraignment of Guo on graft charges has been postponed by the Valenzuela City RTC Branch 282 due to a pending motion to quash filed in the Capas, Tarlac RTC.

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