Fugitive former mayor Alice Guo back in the Philippines to face Senate
Al Jazeera
Guo fled the Philippines two months ago as the Senate investigated her alleged links to Chinese cyberscams.
Alice Guo, a former mayor who went on the run after she was accused of links to Chinese organised crime, has arrived back in the Philippines, where she is expected to be brought in front of the Senate.
Guo, dressed in an orange T-shirt marked ‘detainee’ and wearing a black face mask, touched down in Manila in the early hours of Friday morning.
Philippine media reported that Guo travelled on a chartered jet from Jakarta, where she was arrested for immigration offences earlier this week, and was accompanied by Interior Secretary Benhur Abalos and Philippine National Police chief, General Rommel Francisco Marbil.
In brief comments at a news conference after her arrival, she said she had been the target of death threats. She spent most of the time with her back to the media and looking at the wall.
Abalos promised to provide security for the former mayor but urged her to speak out.
