Where did Alice Guo go? Philippine mayor who allegedly spied for China may have fled country

Senator Risa Hontiveros said Alice Guo, the former mayor of Tarlac accused of being a covert Chinese operative, left the country in July

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Bamban Mayor Alice Leal Guo. The Philippines’ National Bureau of Investigation’s (NBI) fingerprint examination previously found Mayor Guo’s fingerprints were identical to those of a woman named Guo Hua Ping, her suspected real identity, who came to the country as a teen in 2003 with a Chinese passport. Photo: Facebook/AliceLealGuo

Published: 9:00pm, 19 Aug 2024Updated: 10:25am, 20 Aug 2024

Alice Guo, the fugitive former Philippine town mayor accused of being a Chinese spy and having links to organised crime groups, may have left the country in July, according to evidence presented by a lawmaker on Monday.

Senator Risa Hontiveros, who led the Senate hearing committee that grilled Guo’s links to criminality involving Philippine offshore gambling operators (Pogos) as well as her citizenship, revealed information that Guo left the country last month and travelled to Kuala Lumpur.

As proof, Hontiveros presented the Senate with an immigration entry card that Guo supposedly used to enter Malaysia that showed she entered Kuala Lumpur past midnight on July 18.

The senator added that one of her sources had told her Guo had then travelled to Singapore where she met her father, as well as her suspected mother and brother, who reportedly flew in from China.

“Who allowed this travesty to happen? Who is responsible for this? Alice Guo would not have been able to leave if there was no government official helping her,” Hontiveros said, adding that the situation felt like they were being “cooked in their own grease.”