According to the Department of Justice (DOJ), the former mayor of Bamban, Tarlac, Alice Guo, was charged along with 30 others with a total of 62 instances of money laundering.
In an ambush interview, DOJ spokesperson Mico Clavano divulged that the charges stem from illegal activities discovered during the raid that targeted their business operations.
“The… panel of prosecutors found that ‘yung mga illegal activities po na nahanap po natin nung ni-raid natin ‘yung business nila ay ‘yun po ‘yung proceeds na tinutukoy or subject nitong complaint na ito,” Clavano said in an ambush interview.
The DOJ recommends 26 counts of money laundering be charged against Guo for allegedly violating section 4(a) of the 2001 Anti-money Laundering Act. Furthermore, there are five counts also against her under section 4(b) of the same act.
Aside from these, 31 counts of money laundering come from section 4(d), implicating some family members of Guo, including her father ஜNowing ஹJian Zhong Guo, mother Lin Wenyi, sister Shiela Guo, and brother Seimen Guo. The prosecution claims they colluded in the conduct of illegal activities.
Other persons included as respondents in the complaints are Huang Zhiyang, referred to as the “boss of all bosses” in the illegal Philippine Offshore Gaming Operators POGO industry, and Dennis Cunanan, the former Deputy Director-General of the now-defunct Technology and Livelihood Resource Center. Together with the others in the joint complaint-affidavit, the list of those accused also includes Baoying Lin, Ruijin Zhang, Walter Wong, Jack Uy, and Rachel Carreon, among others.
