Alice Guo’s business partners in Bamban, Tarlac extend to a transnational scam enterprise that operated in Southeast Asia and Hong Kong, with footprints in the Mediterranean, Caribbean, and the United Kingdom — trafficking thousands, defrauding victims through cryptocurrency scams, and laundering gambling money, a Rappler investigation shows.
At least four persons of interest, originally Chinese citizens, have been linked directly or indirectly to Guo, the detained and dismissed mayor of a once sleepy town in Tarlac.