MANILA, Philippines — Malacanang on Tuesday ordered the cancellation of dismissed mayor Alice Guo’s Philippine passport following reports she has fled the country.
Executive Secretary Lucas Bersamin, in a memo sent to the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) and Department of Justice (DoJ), directed that “appropriate action” must be taken for the cancellation of the passports of Guo and those of her siblings, Wesley Guo and Sheila Leal Guo, and Cassandra Li Ong, the known representative of the POGO hub raided in Porac, Pampanga last July.
Bersamin cited Republic Act 11963, or the New Philippine Passport Act, as the ground for the directive, stating that Guo was a “fugitive from justice.” It was Senator Risa Hontiveros who bared last Monday that Guo, who has been ordered arrested for her failure to appear before the hearings in the Senate, slipped out of the Philippines.
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