Cops helped Alice Guo escape dragnet – PAOCC

Policemen aided Alice Guo elude a Central Luzon dragnet last July 14. That enabled the fugitive to flee to Indonesia three days later.

Wanted for heinous crimes, the Bamban, Tarlac mayor had holed up in a beach resort bodyguarded by cops. She escaped by speedboat before a raid by the Presidential Anti-Organized Crime Commission.

“A high police officer visited her in the resort,” PAOCC Dir. Winston Casio told this column yesterday. He declined to identify the officer, pending his report to President Bongbong Marcos.

Senators Tuesday probed Guo’s flight to Indonesia where she’s said to still be hiding. In Congress’ custody are her elder half-sister Shiela Guo and confederate Cassandra Li Ong, both nabbed in Batam Aug. 20.

“Our operation was compromised,” Casio said. “Someone apparently had tipped her off, our informant on the ground lamented.”

The informant had sent videos and photos of Guo helicoptering to the resort. Casio assembled a raiding party that included Immigration officers and Navy special forces.

At dawn on July 14, they swooped down on the resort. The informant told them Guo had just sped off by sea.

Casio’s raiders avoided a gunfight with the rogue policemen. Facing charges, the latter have been told to explain themselves.

Guo sailed towards Batangas. They lost her trail, Casio said.

PAOCC guarded border escape routes: Luzon’s northernmost tip in Ilocos Norte, westernmost tip in Bataan and Zamboanga-Basilan-Sulu-Tawi-Tawi southern backdoor.

On July 17 Guo popped up in Denpasar, Bali, onto Kuala Lumpur in the wee hours of July 18. Then, a Singapore reunion on July 21 with father Jian Zhong Guo, mother Wen Yi Lin, brother Wesley Guo and sister Shiela.

Accomplice Ong had been waiting for Guo since June, having flown to Singapore despite Congress’ summonses.

Ong, 24, is linked to human trafficking, murder, kidnapping for ransom and torture inside an illegal POGO hub in Porac, Pampanga. Her companies have ties to Guo’s illegal POGO, cyber-scamming, abduction and torture in adjacent Bamban.

PAOCC believes Ong and Guo’s Chinese fathers are the POGOs’ silent partners. “They’re with the Fujian Gang,” said Casio, referring to vice lords in the Chinese province.

Chinese-Singaporean male Zhang Jie, president of Porac’s Lucky South 99 Outsourcing, booked the Batam hotel for the Guo sisters and Ong. Ex-Chinese policeman Duaren Wu, who holds a Saint Kitts passport, is his Porac partner.

Zhang and Duaren live in a Singapore penthouse condo. Zhang is different from the female Porac manager with the same name, who was interdicted at Davao City Airport June 23 after the PAOCC raid in Porac.

Duaren was responsible for the Chinese military uniforms confiscated in Porac, Casio said. To acquire a Saint Kitts passport an alien must invest at least $250,000 in a growth fund or $400,000 in real estate.

Guo is preparing to sneak into the Golden Triangle, Casio said. Her brother Siemen Guo operates offshore gambling for Chinese high rollers in that narcotics region in northeastern Myanmar, northwestern Thailand and northern Laos.

Gambling thrives there in Bamban-like hubs, complete with high-tech communications, luxury villas and employee dorms. Gang lords rent facilities like locators.

Wesley Guo tried to enter Hong Kong last week. His whereabouts are now unknown, Casio said.

Senator Risa Hontiveros yesterday criticized the long delay in cancelling the Guos’ Filipino passports that let them flee. Yet the foreign office doesn’t know how to cancel travel papers that the family illegally obtained to begin with.

Last Monday, Ong’s lawyer publicized a photo of the First Couple with Ong and an official of PAGCOR, which licensed Guo and Ong’s illegal gambling hubs. A Malacañang envoy in the photo claimed it was taken in 2020, and that the First Couple don’t personally know Ong.

Two other photos spread of Guo with former president Rody Duterte, Sen. Ronald dela Rosa and other past admin appointees. When they were snapped is unknown.

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