MANILA, Philippines – Wesley Guo, the brother of dismissed Bamban Mayor Alice Guo, wants to surrender, their lawyer said on Thursday, September 5.
David said this in an interview with reporters ahead of a Senate hearing which the lawyer was to attend.
David said Wesley told him about his plan in a phone conversation on Wednesday, September 5, the same day his sister was arrested in Indonesia.
“Gusto rin niyang sumuko. [Ang] detail hindi ko masasabi,” David said. (He also wants to surrender. I can’t give the details.)
Asked what prompted Wesley to consider this, David said: Siyempre dumadating sa point ng isang tao na nadidiscourage ka, ‘di ba? Kasi, ‘yung mga kasama mo nandiyan na lahat. Human being that we are, dumarating ‘yung point ng kahinaan natin…. Which is actually ‘yun naman ang tamang gawin.”
(Of course, there comes a point when you get discouraged. The others with him are all here. Being a human being, there comes a point of weakness…. Which is actually the right thing to do.)
The lawyer said he had conveyed this to Philippine authorities.
Senator Raffy Tulfo, chair of the Senate committee on public services, said in a statement that Alice Guo is expected to be brought back to the country at 6:18 pm on Thursday, via a chartered flight. She will be accompanied by Interior Secretary Benhur Abalos and Philippine National Police chief General Rommel Marbil
“Bitbit ni SILG Abalos ang warrant of arrest para ipatupad ang inisyung warrant ng Senado. Kasalukuyan ng pinoproseso si Guo ng Bureau of Immigration at NBI para sa kanyang pagbalik dito sa Pilipinas,” Tulfo added. (READ: How Alice Guo was caught by Indonesian police in only 18 days)
(SILG Abalos will bring with him the warrant of arrest to implement the warrant of the Senate. The Bureau of immigration and the NBI are currently processing Guo for her return to the Philippines.)
Wesley fled the Philippines with Alice and their other sibling, Shiela, on July 18. They are the subjects of an arrest warrant from the Senate for “unduly refusing to appear, despite due notices,” in the upper chamber’s probe into illegal activities of Philippine Offshore Gaming Operator (POGOs).
Shiela and Katherine Cassandra Ong, who is tagged in the raided Porac, Pampanga POGO, were arrested in Indonesia on August 21 and were brought back to the country on August 22. – With reports from Lian Buan, Bonz Magsambol/Rappler.com
