{"id":66560,"date":"2024-09-04T10:30:01","date_gmt":"2024-09-04T01:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/sep\/04\/alice-guo-philippine-fugitive-mayor-arrest-indonesia-alleged-china-ties-ntwnfb"},"modified":"2024-09-04T21:42:19","modified_gmt":"2024-09-04T12:42:19","slug":"philippine-fugitive-mayor-alice-guo-arrested-in-indonesia-officials-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=66560","title":{"rendered":"Fugitive Philippines mayor Alice Guo arrested in Indonesia, officials say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Guo, who is accused of having criminal ties in China, has said she is facing \u2018malicious accusations\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Alice Guo, a fugitive former mayor in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/philippines\">Philippines<\/a> accused of having links to Chinese criminal syndicates, has been arrested in Indonesia, according to Manila\u2019s justice ministry.<\/p>\n<p>Guo, the former mayor of Bamban in Tarlac province, was thrust into the spotlight after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/aug\/04\/inside-mystery-alice-guo-missing-philippines-mayor\">investigators raided an online casino\u2019s sprawling compound in the town<\/a> in March, finding evidence of financial scams and victims of human trafficking, as well as luxury villas and underground tunnels.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/sep\/04\/alice-guo-philippine-fugitive-mayor-arrest-indonesia-alleged-china-ties-ntwnfb\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guo, who is accused of having criminal ties in China, has said she is facing \u2018malicious accusations\u2019Alice Guo, a fugitive former mayor in the Philippines accused of having links to Chinese criminal syndicates, has been arrested in Indonesia, according &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":203,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[156,55,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-indonesia","category-philippines","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/203"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66560"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66566,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66560\/revisions\/66566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}