After an almost two-month absence, the controversial Alice Guo, the dismissed mayor of Bamban, Tarlac arrived at the Philippine Senate Monday, Sept. 9, wearing a bullet-proof vest for the continuation of the probe on the Philippine Offshore Gaming Operations or POGO.
Guo skipped the scheduled hearings sometime in July and fled to Malaysia, then to Indonesia where she was arrested by the Indonesian police Sept. 4. She was fetched in Indonesia by Interior Secretary Benhur Abalos and PNP Chief Gen. Rommel Marbil.
In her attempt escape to Malaysia and Indonesia, she was by her supposed sister Shiela Guo and business associate Cassandra Li Ong, who were also in the Senate hearings.
Guo was accompanied by her lawyers, Stephen David and Alex Avisado.
The Senate hearings are spearheaded by Sen. Risa Hontiveros, chair of the committee on women, children, family relations and gender equality. At Monday’s hearing Guo was for evading questions and testifying falsely.
President Marcos ordered a ban of all POGO operations in the country during his State- of -the -Nation address last July 22.
Photos and videos by Bullit Marquez for VERA Files.
