MANILA: On Friday, August 30, Philippine authorities filed multiple money laundering charges against a former town mayor who is allegedly on the run and has ties to Chinese criminal organisations.
The Senate is looking for Alice Guo, also known as Chinese national Guo Hua Ping, because she refused to appear at hearings regarding her suspected criminal connections. She has refuted the charges, maintaining that she is a natural-born citizen of the Philippines who is the target of “malicious accusations”.
Guo and 35 other people were the targets of multiple money laundering charges filed by the Anti-Money Laundering Council (AMLC), the Presidential Anti-Organized Crime Commission, and the National Bureau of Investigation at the Department of Justice.
“These individuals … are alleged to have been involved in a complex scheme of money laundering linked to the crimes of estafa (or fraudulent acts), qualified trafficking in persons, and violations of the Securities Regulation Code,” the AMLC stated in a statement.
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