(5 Sep 2024)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Manila, Philippines – 5 September 2024
1. Dismissed town mayor Alice Guo entering room
2. Various of Alice Guo before press conference
3. Philippine Department of Interior and Local Government Secretary Benhur Abalos with Guo
4. SOUNDBITE (Tagalog) Benhur Abalos, Philippine Department of Interior and Local Government Secretary:
“I assured her (Guo) with Chief (of police) not to worry about the death threats and just tell the truth, tell everything, don’t be afraid of whoever is behind, even if they are powerful people. The police will protect her.”
5. Wide of press conference
6. SOUNDBITE (Tagalog) Alice Guo, dismissed town mayor:
“I am confirming all that Secretary (Abalos) said that I have death threats and I’m asking for help, and I am happy to see them and I feel safe, thank you very much.”
7. Wide of press conference
STORYLINE:
A former town mayor accused of cybercrimes has arrived back home in the Philippines to be presented to the media after being deported by Indonesia.
Alice Guo, 34, is accused in the Philippines of helping establish an illegal online gaming and scam center catering mostly to clients in China.
Speaking at the press conference, Guo said she has had "death threats" and is "asking for help."
Benhur Abalos, the Philippine Department of Interior and Local Government Secretary, said he assured her "not to worry about the death threats and just tell the truth."
Indonesian police arrested Guo on Tuesday in the outskirts of Jakarta. In exchange, Indonesian authorities hope that the Philippines will repatriate Australian Gregor Johann Haas, one of Indonesia’s most-wanted drug suspects, who was arrested in central Philippines in May.
Guo is also accused of being a Chinese spy and of faking her Filipino citizenship, which allowed her to be elected in 2022 as mayor of the rural town of Bamban in Tarlac province north of Manila.
She has denied wrongdoing and will continue her legal process in Manila, according to a written statement from Indonesia’s Law and Human Rights Ministry’s Directorate General of Immigration.
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