00:00Except for the findings of the court.
00:02A Philippine court found former Bamban mayor Alice Guo guilty of human trafficking on Thursday.
00:08The Pasig City Regional Trial Court sentenced the 35-year-old politician to life imprisonment
00:13and ordered for her transfer to the Correctional Institute for Women in Mandalu-Yong City.
00:19The court also convicted seven other individuals in the case for trafficking
00:24and sentenced them to life imprisonment.
00:26The Presidential Anti-Organized Crime Commission said all the accused were also slapped with a 2 million pesos fine each.
00:37The commission said the court decision was a symbolic victory in its fight against large-scale trafficking and online scam syndicates.
00:45They said Guo's conviction revealed the truth behind the criminal activities
00:49discovered in an illegal Philippine offshore gaming operator hub that she was involved in Bamban.
00:54Guo and the other accused did not appear in court in person, as they attended only via videoconference.
01:02Guo ran for mayor in the agricultural town north of Manila, as a Filipino citizen,
01:08but she was later identified by law enforcement as Chinese National Guo Huaping.
01:14The Senate launched a congressional probe into Guo in May last year,
01:18two months after a police raid revealed a scam center operating out of a facility built on land partially owned by Guo.
01:26The raid uncovered hundreds of trafficked workers, including foreign nationals.
01:32Guo, who was removed from office by the ombudsman in August last year for grave misconduct,
01:38also faces other criminal charges including graft and money laundering.
01:42Venture at the time, not a police raid photo
01:54So you now have no care of the suspicion, but a lot of mutatedığını.
01:56Once again,Actual cabs
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