{"id":75259,"date":"2025-11-20T14:24:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T05:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/nov\/20\/alice-guo-chinese-national-who-ran-huge-scam-centre-while-philippines-mayor-sentenced-to-life-in-prison"},"modified":"2025-11-20T14:24:00","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T05:24:00","slug":"alice-guo-chinese-national-who-ran-huge-scam-centre-while-philippines-mayor-sentenced-to-life-in-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=75259","title":{"rendered":"Alice Guo, Chinese national who ran huge scam centre while Philippines mayor, sentenced to life in prison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Guo, who pretended to be Filipina to become mayor, found guilty of human trafficking after raid on compound where more than 700 people were forced to run scams<\/p>\n<p>Alice Guo, a Chinese national who became a mayor in the Philippines while masquerading as a Filipina, has been sentenced to life in prison along with seven others on human trafficking charges, state prosecutors have said.<\/p>\n<p>Guo, who served as mayor of a town north of Manila, was found guilty of overseeing a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/aug\/04\/inside-mystery-alice-guo-missing-philippines-mayor\">Chinese-operated online gambling centre<\/a> where hundreds of people were forced to run scams or risk torture.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/nov\/20\/alice-guo-chinese-national-who-ran-huge-scam-centre-while-philippines-mayor-sentenced-to-life-in-prison\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guo, who pretended to be Filipina to become mayor, found guilty of human trafficking after raid on compound where more than 700 people were forced to run scamsAlice Guo, a Chinese national who became a mayor in the Philippines while masquerading as a F&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"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":[41,55,3265],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-philippines","category-scams"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75259","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\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75259"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75260,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75259\/revisions\/75260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}