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Shiela Guo told a Senate hearing on Tuesday that she, along with her siblings Alice and Wesley, were taken from their farm in the town of Bamban by a van to a port where they boarded a small white boat last July.
They could be neighbours, local officials, even elected leaders – but in reality, they may be foreign spies or criminals masquerading as Filipinos, hidden in plain sight.
A lawmaker last Friday claimed billions in “dirty money” had passed through the accounts of Guo, the mayor of Bamban in Tarlac province, as the government’s Anti-Money Laundering Council (AMLC) ordered her and her associates’ assets frozen.
The Philippine military has sought to assuage fears over national security after alleged Chinese army uniforms were recovered from an online gaming hub, saying they were probably used as props as senators reiterated their demands to close the sector for good.
In the bill he filed late last month, Senator Sherwin Gatchalian called for the Philippine Offshore Gaming Operator (Pogo) sector to be outlawed, citing a proliferation of human trafficking cases and online scams.