spingold LIVE: Senate hearing on Alice Guo’s escape, POGOs for October 8

MANILAspingold, Philippines — The Senate Committee on Women, Children, Family Relations and Gender Equality with the Committees on Migrant Workers, and Public Order and Dangerous Drugs is continuing the inquiry into the escape of dismissed Bamban, Tarlac mayor Alice Guo on Tuesday morning, October 8.

Deputy Minority Leader Risa Hontiveros is leading the investigation, which is expected to conclude today.

Last September 24, the brother of former presidential adviser Michael Yang, Yang Jianxin, attended the hearing and admitted to being born in China and assuming a Filipino identity in order to operate businesses.

Guo, suspected to be Chinese national Guo Hua Ping, also attended the Senate probe and deviated from her usual responses to assert her innocence—and to hint at a bigger boss.

The Senate joint hearing later went into an executive session where Guo disclosed  a “crucial personality” allegedly involved in POGOs.

The Senate comes after renewed allegations of Guo being a spy sparked anew after a documentary of Al Jazeera featured tycoon She Zhijiang who is currently detained in Thailand. She is wanted in Beijing for illegal online gambling operations.

The detained fugitive claimed that he once spied for China and was recruited by a man from the Philippines. She was also quoted to name Guo, saying the dismissed mayor worked for China’s Ministry of State Security, the main agency overseeing foreign intelligence.

Watch the Senate hearing at 10 a.m.spingold

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