MANILA, Philippines — Sen. Risa Hontiveros revealed at a Senate listening to on Thursday that the Sabah stamp on Shiela Guo’s passport was faux.
Shiela was beforehand recognized because the sister of dismissed Bamban Mayor Alice Guo, who’s the topic of a Senate probe over her supposed ties to Philippine offshore gaming operators (Pogos).
In response to Hontiveros, they discovered from mates in Sabah, Malaysia that Shiela had no “authorized entry” in Sabah.
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“Pati yung stamp sa passport na nag-indicate na dumating kayo sa Sabah, faux daw yung stamp na yan. Kinumpara nila sa totoong stamp na dapat pinatatak sa Sabah,” the senator stated on the resumption of the the Senate subcommittee on justice and human rights listening to.
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“Pero ang nakukumpirma nila, ito credible info na ng aming committee, subcommittee, dumating kayo sa Kuala Lumpur nung July 18,” Hontiveros added.
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Her info contradicted Shiela’s testimony through the panel’s listening to final August 27.
Hontiveros recalled Shiela saying over the past listening to that she and her sibling Wesley, together with Alice, left the Philippines by sea on July 18.
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They supposedly arrived in Xiān běn nà (Chinese language title of Semporna), which is positioned in Sabah, Malaysia.
“Naalala mo ba kung natatakan yung passport mo dun sa Xiān běn nà? Natatakan ba agad yun pagdating nyo dun?” Hontiveros requested.
“Hindi sya natatakan. Dere-deretso kami sa Malaysia. Malaysia ba yung sa Xiān běn nà? Hindi ko po alam e,” Shiela answered.
Hontiveros introduced once more earlier than the committee a duplicate of Shiela’s passport supposedly bearing a Sabah stamp.
“Ipinakita na namin ito noong nakaraang listening to. Could tatak yung pasport mo ‘entered Sabah.’ So might tatak. Ang problema, hindi nagma-match ang stamp sa totoong dapat na stamp kung Sabah talaga ang baba ninyo,” the senator stated.
“In response to these stamps, July 18 or basa ng iba July 19 kayo pumasok sa Malayasia pero by way of Kuala Lumpur. Kasi yung ganyang klaseng stamp daw ay itatatak lang sa passport kung galing ng KL at July 19 ka lang pumasok sa Sabah, ayon sa stamp na yan. Samakatuwid, nauna ka dapat sa Kuala Lumpur kaysa sa Sabah,” she stated.
Shiela earlier instructed the committee that from their farm in Bamban, Tarlac, a van fetched them and they traveled for about 5 hours earlier than arriving at a port the place they boarded a small white boat.
They later transferred to a giant fishing boat and one other boat earlier than arriving in Sabah and spent 4 to 5 days there.
From Malaysia, they flew to Singapore and stayed for a number of days there earlier than taking a ferry to Batam, Indonesia.
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Three days after arriving in Indonesia on August 18, Shiela and Alice’s enterprise accomplice, Cassandra Ong, was arrested by Indonesian authorities.
Alice was additionally arrested in Indonesia however solely on September 4.
The dismissed mayor has been ordered arrested by the Senate for her repeated failure to attend the previous hearings of the chamber’s committee on ladies, headed by Hontiveros.