Senator backs executive session for Alice Guo

Joseph Victor Ejercito is inclined to support the request of dismissed Bamban mayor Alice Guo for an executive session to get more information about her bosses in what appeared to be an international crime ring.

- Cecille Suerte Felipe

Ejercito, a member of the Senate committee on women, children and family affairs, said he and other senators would try hard to squeeze Guo for information about Philippine offshore gaming operators (POGOs) and her escape in mid-July. “She is requesting for an executive session. I think she is just a pawn in a bigger web of an international syndicate. I hope that if we give her an executive session she can point out who is really behind the POGOs,” Ejercito said in an interview yesterday over dzBB.

The Senate ordered Guo’s arrest after she and her supposed siblings, Shiela and Wesley, failed to attend the series of public hearings of the Senate committee on women looking into alleged POGOrelated crimes like scamming and human traffi cking.