DFA cancels Guo’s passport, reports to Interpol

Senator Risa Hontiveros urged the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) on Tuesday to cancel Mayor Alice Guo's Philippine passport after revealing that Guo used it to escape the country amid mounting criminal cases.

Executive Secretary Lucas Bersamin subsequently ordered the cancellation of Guo's and her relatives' passports, directing appropriate action from the DFA and Department of Justice.

The DFA has reported Guo’s and her relatives’ passports to Interpol and established that Mayor Alice Guo misdeclared her identity and citizenship in her passport applications.

On Monday, August 19, BI spokesperson Dana Sandoval said Guo is currently in Indonesia, arriving there nearly a month after departing from the Philippines.

The Bureau of Immigration (BI) is now backtracking her movements to determine those behind her travel and is not ruling out the possibility that some immigration officials have been helping the mayor.

Hontiveros emphasized that cancelling Guo's passport would limit her travels and make it easier for authorities to apprehend her, stressing that she does not have the right to use a Philippine passport given her alleged Chinese nationality.