Alice Guo Seeks Dismissal of Human Trafficking Charges from DOJ
ALICE GUO – Controversial mayor Alice Guo wants the Department of Justice (DOJ) to junk human trafficking raps against her.
After the Senate issued an arrest order, suspended Bamban Mayor Alice Guo has been missing from the scene for several weeks. After she skipped two (2) hearings over the illegal Philippine offshore gaming operations in her town, she was cited for contempt.
Mayor Guo asserted her innocence in response to the accusations. Since Mayor Guo’s fingerprints and the finger of Guo Hua Ping, a Chinese national who entered the nation in 2003, matched, her identity is also under investigation.
The Office of the Sergeant-at-Arms of the upper chamber visited all of the suspended mayor’s recorded homes after the Senate issued an arrest order, but they were unable to confirm the mayor’s presence.
Based on a report from Inquirer, Guo’s camp requested that the Department of Justice (DOJ) drop the legitimate human trafficking accusation against her.
Guo claims that the complainants were unable to prove her link to human trafficking in Bamban since all of the evidence they had was “mere electric bills and documents” from Baofu Land Development, Inc.
Rumor has it that Guo is the president of Baofu, the compound directly opposite Bamban Municipal Hall that was the site of the raid last March on Philippine offshore gaming operator Pogo.
“The allegations against me are being exploited by individuals who are more interested in leveraging this issue for their own political ambitions and enhancing their public image rather than seeking the truth,” Guo asserted in a motion with an attached counter-affidavit she filed with the DOJ on Friday.
According to the report, Guo filed a request to the DOJ, via her attorney, to reopen the preliminary investigation into her human trafficking case and allow her counter-affidavit to be admitted. “In support of my prayer for the dismissal of the complaint,” she filed it.