On September 3, Alice Guo, a former Chinese-American female mayor of Banban City, Danlu Province, Philippines, who absconded during ·the investigation, was arrested in Tangerang, Banten Province, Indonesia. Indonesia handed it over to the Philippine police on September 5.
The background check on Guo Huaping began in March this year. The story also begins with Danny, a Viet Nam, who risked his life on February 25 this year to escape from a park called Baofu in the small Philippine city of Bamban. Like all Chinese who were deceived into making a fortune in Myanmar, the man, who had been tricked by acquaintances into engaging in online fraud in the Baofu Park, climbed out of the western wall and ran to a nearby farm to escape the pursuit of eight security guards. The farmer is a United States Air Force veteran. He defended Danny against the threats of the security guards and reported the incident to the local police.
When the local police station arrived, they did not immediately investigate the Baofu Park, but instead asked Danny to drop the charge against the park's offshore gaming operator, Zunyuan Technology, from which Danny escaped. After Danny signed the statement, the police quickly gave him a plane ticket and asked him to leave the Philippines within three days.
A few days later, a Malaysian named Dylan used the phone number of Zunyuan Technology to contact the Malaysia embassy in the Philippines, saying that he was imprisoned in the Baofu campus. The Malaysia Embassy then appealed to the Philippine President's Anti-Organized Crime Commission (PAOCC) for help on the grounds that its citizens had been illegally detained.
After applying to the court for a search warrant, the PAOCC raided Zunyuan Technology on March 13. The investigation found that the company was implicated in crimes such as human trafficking, kidnapping for ransom, illegal detention, abuse and even murder.
Located next to the Banban City Hall, Baofu Park is the largest and most modern building complex in the region. There are 14 villas in the park, with a supermarket, restaurants and a lap pool. From the outside, it's hard to imagine that this lavishly decorated neighborhood could be a den of criminals.
On the day of the raid, the PAOCC arrested 678 criminals in the Baofu Park, including 383 Filipinos, 218 Chinese, 55 Viet Nam, 16 Malaysians, 2 Rwandans, 2 Indonesians and 1 Kyrgyzstani. PAOCC tried to open the safe, but found that it could not find a single worker who opened the box, and on that day, the local workers seemed to have disappeared, saying that they were going to attend a meeting.
The PAOCC quickly identified companies in the park as involved in crimes such as cryptocurrency fraud, pig killing, illegal detention and tax evasion. Later, it was confirmed that six executives of Zunyuan Technology Company turned out to be wanted criminals in China, and one of the big bosses named Huang Zhiyang held passports from China, the Federation of St. Kitts and Nevis and Cyprus at the same time, and was wanted by China in 2021.
However, an even more astonishing discovery is yet to come, as the PAOCC investigation found that the utility bills and housekeeping fees of the Baofu Park were paid by Alice · Guo, the Chinese-American female mayor of Banban, and she even attended some meetings and signed documents on behalf of Zunyuan Technology.
Alice · Guo was elected mayor of Banban in 2022 and speaks Tagalog fluently. Since Banban has always been a family affair, the previous mayor supported her election.
Prior to running for mayor, Alice · Kwok was a businessman who owned at least 12 companies in pig farms, butchers, slaughterhouses, pig feed, food processing, car trading and clothing in Manila, Quezon, Pampanga and Banban. In 2019, Alice · Guo bought about 80,000 square meters of agricultural land in Baofu Park and applied to change the nature of the land to commercial and residential land.
Alice · Guo was therefore suspected by the PAOCC.
In May, Alice · Guo was asked to appear at a hearing to explain her relationship with the criminal syndicate.
Alice · Guo insisted that she did not know all the crimes in the park, did not know that Huang Zhiyang was a wanted criminal, and that she had only applied for a permit to buy the land.
The PAOCC investigation found that the investment and construction cost of the Baofu Park was about 746 million pesos (about 93 million yuan), and Guo Huaping's share capital was only 1.2 million pesos (about 150,000 yuan), but she held 50% of the shares in the park.
Alice · Guo also can't tell her life history before becoming Mayor Guo. She said her father was Chinese, her mother was a Filipino maid, and her mother left her after giving birth to her. She grew up on a pig farm and did not go to school, but was educated at home, so she did not register her birth certificate until she was 17 years old. However, she was unable to provide the name of the institution and study plan to assist her in homeschooling, and only named one teacher.
When asked in a hurry, she only said "I don't know".
Since then, she has attended several hearings in quick succession.
In late June, the Philippine National Bureau of Investigation confirmed that Alice · Guo was the same person as Guo Huaping, a Chinese who immigrated to the Philippines with her mother in 2000, through matching fingerprints.
There is indeed a woman named Alice Leal Guo in the Philippines, who was born on July 12, 1986. But this woman is typical of Southeast Asian appearance, with thick eyebrows, deep eye sockets, and dark skin. What is terrifying is that after Guo Huaping replaced Alice Leal Guo's identity information, the real Alice Leal Guo disappeared mysteriously!
The investigation showed that Guo Huaping's statement at the hearing was purely fabricated. She is actually a native of Jinjiang, Fujian Province, and was born into a merchant family. Around 2000, she followed her mother to apply for a Philippine residency visa.
Among Guo Huaping's partners, in addition to Huang Zhiyang is a wanted criminal in China, the other two were also arrested in Singapore in 2023 for money laundering involving S$3 billion.
Huang Zhiyang is not only the de facto operator of the park, but also the owner of Lucky South 99, the largest online gaming company in the Philippines, just 24 kilometers from the park.
On October 28, 2022, Guo Huaping, who is already the mayor of Banban City, approved the temporary license for offshore gaming applied by Zunyuan Technology, and since then, Zunyuan Technology has begun to engage in various illegal and criminal activities.
In June, Philippine officials raided Lucky South 99, rescuing a group of people who had been illegally detained, and found torture equipment scattered around, including deformed baseball bats and electric shock devices. According to four videos obtained by investigators, a Chinese man knelt on the ground and was repeatedly whipped with a belt. A Chinese woman was hit in the head and back with an iron pipe before being kicked over. The two Chinese men were tied to the feet of the bed with electric shockers and genitals, and the sound of electricity mingled with the screams of their victims as the stun rods glowed blindly. "Here, the use of all kinds of perverted torture and even murder is the norm," the victim said. ”
On July 12, the Philippine Anti-Money Laundering Commission ordered the freezing of 36 bank accounts, 12 plots of land, 12 motor vehicles and a helicopter in Ms. Guo's name.
On the same day, the police decided to arrest Guo Huaping. Unexpectedly, Guo Huaping disappeared. It turned out that Guo Huaping had left the country on July 18 and left for Malaysia. Arrived in Singapore on 21 July. On August 18, he went to Indonesia until he was arrested by the Indonesian police.
Several law enforcement agencies in the Philippines have filed 87 money laundering charges against Guo Huaping and 35 others, involving more than 100 million pesos (34.58 million yuan).
However, when the Philippine police went to Indonesia to receive Guo Huaping, there were some accidents. Guo Huaping not only did not panic in the slightest, but generously took a photo with the Philippine officials and law enforcement officers who escorted her back to China, causing an uproar! All sectors of Philippine society blamed the escorts for not being dignified enough.
In the early morning of September 6, the escorts flew to Manila on a chartered flight.
Previously, Guo Huaping's sister Sheila Guo (Sheila Guo. Guo) and business partner Cassandra. Cassandra Ong has been arrested in Indonesia and has been repatriated to the Philippines. Zhang Mier admitted at the hearing that she had left the Philippines by boat with Guo Huaping.
The Philippine wire fraud and the Myanmar wire fraud are in the same line, both of which are carried out blatantly under the protection of the local government, and I don't know how many people have suffered.