Francis Escudero —SENATE PRIB
MANILA, Philippines — Even Senate President Francis “Chiz” Escudero shouldn’t be satisfied that no Filipino helped ex-mayor Alice Guo (actual title: Guo Hua Ping) escape.
“I don’t imagine Alice’s assertion that no different Filipino helped her for I’m of the idea that there have been different personalities, probably officers in authorities apart from the BI (Bureau of Immigration), who helped her,” Escudero mentioned in a press release on Tuesday.
“Nonetheless, non-Filipino actors who helped her escape must also be held to account together with those she talked about. That they’re allegedly ‘not right here’ shouldn’t cease us from making an attempt to get them, particularly Alice’s financiers and executives,” he additionally mentioned.
Escudero was referring to the title of an individual Guo wrote on a bit of paper when she was compelled throughout Monday’s listening to of the Senate committee on girls to establish who helped her flee the nation final July.
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In response to Guo, who was ousted as mayor of Bamban city in Tarlac province, the individual she wrote on the paper was the one one who helped her escape.
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“No Filipino helped you? So the one individual that you just wrote on the paper was the one one who helped you?” Sen. Risa Hontiveros, chair of the committee on girls, requested in the course of the listening to. Guo solely nodded in response.
Guo additionally gave the identical response when Senate President Professional Tempore Jinggoy Estrada adopted up on Hontiveros’ question.
“That’s inconceivable. It’s inconceivable that no person helped you escape from the Philippines,” Estrada mentioned partly in Filipino.
“However there was actually no person,” Guo answered in Filipino.
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Guo likewise confirmed that she and her sibling, Wesley, and Shiela Guo (actual title: Zhang Mier) — earlier recognized as her sister — left the nation by sea.
Alice Guo was apprehended in Indonesia on September 4 whereas Shiela and the previous mayor’s alleged enterprise companion, Cassandra Ong, had been nabbed on August 21, additionally in Jakarta.
Their arrests had been in reference to the Senate probe into Alice Guo’s alleged hyperlinks to Philippine offshore gaming operators.
On alleged threats to Alice Guo’s life, Escudero mentioned: “I are likely to imagine that there are credible threats to her life however it could depend upon the extent of her revelations and if she’s going to inform the entire reality.”
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The ex-mayor repeatedly used the alleged threats to her life as a cause to evade answering some questions raised by senators throughout Monday’s listening to.
