Dismissed Bamban, Tarlac Mayor Alice Guo sent surrender feelers while she was in Indonesia, an official of the Bureau of Immigration (BI) said on Saturday.
Guo confirmed this when BI Fugitive Search Unit (FSU) chief Rendel Ryan Sy talked to her in Indonesia after authorities turned her over to them.
“Nu’ng nakakuha ako ng pagkakataon na makausap siya, may mga tinanong din ako sa kanya kasi may mga gusto rin tayong malaman, ‘yun nga, sinabi niya na masaya raw siya na nasa kamay na natin. Kasi actually gusto na raw niya talagang sumuko sa amin,” Sy said in an interview on Super Radyo dzBB.
“Well actually nu’ng nasa Jakarta ako, dalawang linggo na, may kumontak din po sa atin na sinasabi nga na gusto niyang sumuko, ni Alice, although naputol po ‘yung pag-uusap namin kasi hindi ko alam kung ano na ang nangyari after that,” he said.
Asked to confirm if Guo sent surrender feelers, Sy said: “Yes po. May mga ganu’n po at vinalidate ko din naman po sa kanya ‘yon.”
“At sinabi niya na ‘yung kausap ko nga daw po ay kausap niya nga din,” he added.
Earlier, lawyer Stephen David, Guo’s legal counsel, said death threats were the reason why Guo did not surrender to authorities when she was still in the country.
Guo had disappeared from the public eye after attending Senate hearings in May into her alleged involvement in the raided POGO hub in her locality. This prompted the Senate to issue an arrest order against her last July.
Interior Secretary Benhur Abalos said Guo fled the country because she feared for her life.
The Presidential Anti-Organized Crime Commission (PAOCC) however on Friday said they do not believe that Guo received death threats when she was still in the Philippines.
PAOCC Undersecretary Gilbert Cruz said that he could not fathom who would threaten Guo if she had not divulged the identities of her alleged co-conspirators in the operations of the raided Bamban POGO hub.
Guo was arrested in Indonesia on Wednesday by Indonesian police, the PAOCC earlier said.
She was nabbed in a townhouse in Tangerang City before dawn that day.
Guo was turned over by Indonesian authorities to Philippine officials led by Abalos and Philippine National Police chief Police General Rommel Marbil on Thursday afternoon.
The dismissed mayor was then brought back to the Philippines early Friday.
Guo is facing a total of 87 counts of money laundering, along with a human trafficking complaint in connection to the raided POGO hub in Bamban.
A Tarlac court also issued an arrest warrant for her in connection with a graft case.
A quo warranto petition has also been filed against Guo before a Manila court as well as a petition to cancel her birth certificate before a Tarlac court. —KG, GMA Integrated News
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