US EditionPhilippine court convicts former mayor of human trafficking
Alice Guo and seven co-accused were sentenced to life imprisonment and fined P2 million each for trafficking at an illegal gaming hub where nearly 800 victims were rescued, officials said.
- Alice Guo, a 35-year-old who was previously elected mayor of Bamban in the Philippines, was arrested and jailed for life for running one of the country's biggest scam centers that employed hundreds of people to run online scams.
- Guo initially denied any knowledge of the scam center located near her office, but authorities found that the land where the center was built was previously owned by her.
- After a senate investigation uncovered discrepancies in Guo's life story and her Chinese identity, she went into hiding, prompting an international operation to capture her, before being arrested in Indonesia and extradited to the Philippines.
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Philippine court convicts former mayor of human trafficking
MANILA, Philippines (AP) -- A Philippine court on Thursday convicted a former mayor, who officials say is a Chinese national, of human trafficking charges for helping establish an illegal online gaming complex in a northern province where hundreds of Chinese and other foreign nationals were forced to conduct scams.
Chinese fake Filipina gets life in prison for human trafficking, online gambling centre
A Philippine court sentenced Alice Guo, a Chinese national who became a mayor while masquerading as a Filipina, and seven others to life in prison on human trafficking charges, state prosecutors said.
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Alice Guo official portraitAlice Guō Huápíng ([郭華萍), the onetime small-town mayor whose mid-2024 arrest heralded growing attention to what would become one of the world’s biggest crime stories, has been sentenced to life in prison along with three others for violating Philippine anti-trafficking laws by the Pasig City Regional Trial Court in Manila.The 35-year-old Guo billed herself as the daughter of a Chinese pig farmer and his common-law Fili…
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