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SUSPENDED Bamban, Tarlac Mayor Alice Guo and seven others were ordered arrested by the Senate amid the ongoing investigation into the illegal activities of the Philippine Offshore Gaming Operator (POGOs).<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The arrest order signed by Senate President Chiz Escudero and Senator Risa Hontiveros, chair of the Senate Committee on Women and Children, Family Relations, and Gender Equality dated July 11 was released to the media on Saturday, July 13.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The Office of the Senate Sergeant at Arms (OSAA) on Saturday deployed four teams to serve the arrest warrant against Guo and seven others.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Aside from Guo, also ordered arrested are Sheila Leal Guo, Wesley Leal Guo, Jian Zhong Guo, Seimen Guo, and her suspected mother Wen Yi Lin, as well as Dennis Cunanan and Nancy Gamo.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The OSAA was given 24 hours to serve the arrest orders and detain the eight individuals at its office until they appear and testify before the Senate committee investigating illegal POGOs.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Hontiveros said the eight were ordered to appear before her committee on July 29.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The Senate, in the arrest order, said that Guo\u2019s non-attendance at the inquiries was \u201cdelaying, impeding, and obstructing\u201d the probe into alleged human trafficking, serious illegal detention, and physical abuse and torture within facilities of POGOs, which are regulated by the Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corporation (PAGCOR)<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The embattled mayor failed to attend the June 26 and July 10 Senate hearings.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Guo’s lawyer attorney Stephen David said the mayor is “not really capable of attending Senate hearings at the moment” due to trauma.<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" SUSPENDED Bamban, Tarlac Mayor Alice Guo and seven others were ordered arrested by the Senate amid the ongoing investigation into the illegal activities of the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7157,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7156"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7156"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7158,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7156\/revisions\/7158"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}} <\/h1>\n