A YouTube video claims that dismissed Bamban, Tarlac mayor Alice Guo will be deported to China. This is not true. There is no deportation order against Guo.
Uploaded on Oct. 4, the video’s headline read:
“BINAWIAN NG YAMAN! ALICE GUO NAMUTLA! HINDI NA IKUKULONG? PAPAUWIN NALANG SA CHINA (Wealth confiscated! Alice Guo turned pale! Will no longer be imprisoned? Will be sent back to China instead)!”
Guo is currently detained at the Pasig City jail and is facing multiple charges of human trafficking, money laundering, tax evasion and graft, among others.
The Bureau of Immigration said last Sept. 8 that Guo is “facing deportation charges for undesirability and misrepresentation” but it has yet to issue a statement on the status of the case.
Guo’s Philippine passport was canceled by the Department of Foreign Affairs on Sept. 30 for being “fraudulently acquired” after her biometrics matched that of a Chinese national named Guo Hua Ping.
The Office of the Solicitor General has also filed a petition in the Tarlac City regional trial court to cancel Guo’s birth certificate. The Philippine Statistics Authority said she failed to submit the required documents for her late birth registration in 2005 when she was already a teenager.
Guo pleaded not guilty to qualified human trafficking charges during her arraignment last Sept. 27.
The dismissed mayor is also linked to illegal Philippine Offshore Gaming Operators (POGO), and is facing accusations of being a Chinese spy, whose mayoral campaign was allegedly funded by China’s Ministry of State Security.
The video, which was clearly clickbait, did not present proof to support its claim. It only showed clips from a Sept. 27 House committee hearing on illegal POGOs and drugs where Manila 6th District Rep. Benny Abante said that if it were up to him, he would have businessman Tony Yang deported to China.
Yang, a brother of former president Rodrigo Duterte’s adviser Michael Yang, is also being linked to illegal POGO operations.
Uploaded by YouTube channel BALITA NI JUAN, the video has received 19,692 interactions.
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