She admitted that she was both angry and emotional after a documentary from Al Jazeera was shown as proof that she was a spy.
Alice Guo, the dismissed former mayor of Bamban town in Tarlac province, angrily denied that she was a spy for China.
This, after a documentary from Al Jazeera was shown during the House quad committee hearing late last week, alleging that a Chinese tycoon now detained in a Thailand jail had tagged her as one.
Guo was dismissed as mayor after it was determined that she was a Chinese citizen, not Filipino as she continues to claim.
Chinese tycoon She Zhijiang said in the documentary that Guo – real name Guo Hua Ping – the former mayor was a state agent.
In the documentary, She says he used his handler’s cellphone to speak with Guo in the Philippines. Guo supposedly asked She to fund her campaign for mayor in 2022.
She is quoted as saying, “I really didn’t want to offend the government of the Philippines, so I didn’t give her any money.”
The documentary states that Guo is the daughter of Lin Wen-Yi and was born and raised in Fujian province.
She is a self-confessed Chinese Ministry of State – China’s equivalent of the CIA – official who was captured in Thailand for alleged spying activities.
He advised Guo to “speak the truth” because China “cannot be trusted.”
“Look at what happened to me. If you don’t want to be eliminated, you should tell the world the truth,” She said.
It was while the documentary was shown in the House hearing when Guo lost her temper. She angrily denied knowing She, much less asked for money from the supposed Chinese spy.
“I want to tell our countrymen that I love the Philippines,” she addressed lead chairman Rep. Robert Ace Barbers in Tagalog.
Guo also said she wanted to file charges against She for describing her as a Chinese state agent. Guo added that she believed government agencies would eventually determine that she was not a spy in the course of their investigations.
“I don’t know how but I will find a way. I will speak to my lawyer and to the network. I will file charges,” Guo said.
“I love the Philippines. I am a Filipino. I am not a spy,” Guo reiterated.
During the ongoing hearings of the four House committee acting as one, Deputy Speakers Aurelio Gonzales and David Suarez showed a matrix explaining the alleged criminal activities of Michael Yang, a former business adviser of former president Rodrigo Duterte.
Yang has been linked to Guo, who has admitted owning a property in Bamban, where a large and unauthorized Philippine Overseas Gaming Operator or POGO was operating.
“These Chinese nationals are setting up corporations all over the country, taking advantage of our laws by perpetrating and promoting illegal activities, to the great prejudice of our country and the Filipino people, “ said Gonzales.
To recall, Guo managed to escape the country at the height of the House hearings, exiting through the so-called back door in Mindanao.
She was later apprehended by Indonesian police and sent back to the Philippines.
As a result of her escape, the Marcos administration dismissed various employees from the Bureau of Immigration.
Guo said she left out of fear for her life. She refused to tell the House who helped her escape, saying she would be killed if she revealed the name of the mastermind.
